Paint it in blood: Are art galleries antithetical to what I want to do?

At my tutorial, to help me think about aesthetics, JK suggested I should consider imagining my interim show piece in a different way, and reflect on how the aesthetics change. One of my rants (which JK gamely read and responded positively to) was how the aesthetic of my piece clashed with the aesthetic of CSM. My pieces was 'beautiful mess' of human emotion that sort of vomited out of it's frame and took over the entire side of the constructed wall assigned to it. It was a million miles (in my mind) from the exquisite pieces on clean white walls aesthetic that I imagine CSM to champion. I really wanted therefore to imagine how I could have done it in a more 'CSM aesthetic.

Whenever I need to do some serious reflection, if I can, I go for a walk. As I tramped through the Kent countryside, I tried to think of stripping the work back to it's bare essentials - the postcards were a vehicle, as was the wall, what the piece was really about was sharing. 

As I grappled with ideas, suddenly unbidden an image popped into my head. Blood. FUCKING blood... Give everyone a bowl of blood and they write their messages on the walls in blood. 

I literally stopped dead in my tracks... The Tathos side of me was still yelling "hell yeah! blood! that's what they need!". The Tomgos side was shocked and curious. So much anger. Why when I was trying to think of a clean under-stated aesthetic, would my head go there? Why the anger towards CSM? Why the desire to incite people to metaphorically (or potentially literally!) splash them with blood? 

I could sense the blood wasn't about violence, but rather the desire to shock, the desire to shock people 'awake'. And then it struck me art galleries are (for me) immensely emotionally repressed spaces. They are, in a real sense, antithetical to what I am trying to do in my MA project. My project is about attacking taboos around grief and mental health, art galleries are hushed spaces, welcoming to few, with complex social rules about 'good' behaviour.

This felt like a really important insight. I'm not sure what it means yet, as in, what practical implications it has for my work.