Skateboarding and graffiti invaded an Oxford gallery on Friday night.
But the graffiti has not left any permanent damage as it was drawn completely by torch light — and the skateboarding formed part of an artistic look at the history of geometry.
As part of the Late at Modern Art Oxford programme, Matthew Reeves and Warren Shaw Fine Art students at Oxford Brookes University, demonstrated ‘light graffiti’ at the Pembroke Street gallery.
The two friends then helped visitors make their own ‘tags’, the name for the kind of signature graffiti artists use, by using long-exposure photography and torches to capture the glowing shapes.
The evening included a a video chronicle of the history of skateboarding, called Topographie Anecdotée du Skateboard, by Raphael Zarka, and music by ‘dubstep’ DJ Rob Hawthorn.
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