The exhibition at the CCA gallery has a purpose to show the response Clare Rae has made to the photographer Claude Cahun through her work.  The exhibition does this successfully by separating the two artists work into adjacent rooms, even though kept apart both artists work are hung in the same way,  both display the work without boarders to the photographs and each piece of work spaced differently and this was effective for the type of exhibition.  The exhibition was successful in that Clare Rae had successfully responded to the work of Claude Cahun in matters of her style of work and the final finish of the work

The exhibition was successful in that Clare Rae had successfully responded to the work of Claude Cahun in matters of her style of work and the final finish of the works.

            This is one of the photographs produced by Clare Rae in response to Claude Cahun.  From looking at the photograph I can understand and visually see where her influence has derived from.  Her use of space shows a direct link towards one of Claude Cahuns own photographs.  The photograph creates and effect and impression of the depth and use of the space around her as she crams herself under the top of the trolley.  This is a similar idea that Cahun previously looked into as she placed herself into the self of a cupboard.

Above shows the photograph first created by Claude Cahun and it is the photograph that I believe has been the one to influence Clare Rae to produce the photograph she created above.  I feel Clare Rae successfully responded to Cahun through her work as she has looked into the different elements Cahun used in her work and for this particular response it was her use of space and how she places her body into the unusual spaces.

I believe Clare Rae has been heavily influenced specifically in this project of her work by Claude Cahun and I also believe that she has successfully reproduced her own work in response by experimenting with how she places her body into the landscapes and into the spaces.