War is over

A recent exhibition I went to was the Yoko Ono exhibition called "War is Over! (if you want it)." This exhibition without a doubt was one of THE best exhibitions I have ever been to. I highly recommend you to go check it out at the MCA (Museum of Contemporary Art) even if you don't understand art, because her exhibition was an amazing experience, I've never been so engulfed within an exhibition before.

 Here are just some of the pieces from her exhibition:

The phone (RH photo) is a pretty well known peace, it was in a glass maze that had dead ends, and was a little confusing to go through, but I made it first to the phone, which on the glass podium had "Pick up the phone when it rings, you'll know it's me" (or something along those lines) I really wanted it to ring! 

She had many participatory artworks, like these two! The first one on the top got us to write on a piece of paper where we wanted to go and then to place it anywhere in any of the suitcases. 
The one of the bottom had  two whole walls full of different maps of countries and the world. There was a bowl of stamps that had "imagine peace" on them in different languages. You had to pick any stamp, pick an ink pad and then place the stamp on your favourite place in the world. 

This artwork was called "Helmets - pieces of sky" and was another participatory artwork. You were allowed to take a puzzle piece. All the puzzle pieces were of the sky. 

This one was one of my favourites, and one of the most touching ones. It was called "My Mommy is Beautiful." What you had to do was, on a piece of paper, write a message to your mum and stick it up on the wall. I saw so many sweet messages to mothers, showing appreciation and love. 

This was another one of my favourites. It was a line of bottles that had water in them, and on each bottle she'd stuck a name of a well known person eg. Albert Einstein, Johnny Cash.
The artwork was called "Water talk" and as the concept she'd written: 

"You are water
I'm water
we're all water in different containers
that's why it is so easy to meet 
someday we'll evaporate together 

but even after the water's gone
we'll probably point out to the containers 
and say, "that's me there, that one" 
we're container minders" 



























Yoko Ono's exhibition is one that I will never forget. I loved Yoko Ono before this, but this exhibition has made me love her even more - she seems like such a sweet and caring person. You guys should definitely check it out! 

I'm sorry if this post is really long, but I hope you're having a lovely day today, take care!