FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE
Silas
Fong
Memory
Disorder
21 April
- 21
May,
2011
Opening
Reception: Thursday, 21 April 2011, 6 - 8
pm
Gallery EXIT,
1 Shin Hing Street, Central, Hong
Kong
Hours: Mon -
Sat, 1100 -
1900
Gallery EXIT is pleased to present Memory
Disorder, the first solo exhibition of Silas Fong with the
gallery. The exhibition is a video installation consisting of 26 videos, slide shows and text captions. The
videos are captured by telecine super 8 film, webcam, cellphone, camera
and digital video of different
qualities.
With Memory
Disorder, Fong investigates how
the temporality of memory comes into
play. In our consciousness, the images that one sees prompt an associate with images drawn from our memory.
This often triggers flashbacks and even imagined events. Our minds are often a
sequence of randomly connected scenes.
Is there an ordering for memories?
Are they organized chronologically or dependent on one's state of mind, or an
inseparable mixture of both?
By using his
biography as a specimen, Fong choreographs an
experience of immerging in memories and imagination by letting moving images
appear and disappear. The scenes are drawn
from personal encounters with conflict, the youthful urge to search for
something not known, people to empathize with and places imbued with affection.
According to Fong, the work is an on-going fragmented narrative that raises the
question: "do we want to forget, or
not?"
Silas Fong (b.
1985) is currently a MFA candidate at
The Chinese University of Hong Kong. His
video, installation and new media works have been exhibited in Europe and Asia.
In 2009, He received the Young Artist Award of at The Hong Kong Contemporary
Art Biennial. His work is collected bythe
Documentaries of Chinese Performance Art collection of the Macao Museum
of
Art.
The artist
will be present at the opening
reception.
For further information and images, please
contact Kenji Wong at 2541 1299, email to info@galleryexit.com
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即時發佈
方琛宇個展
-《記憶障礙》
2011年4月21日至5月21日
開幕酒會：
2011年4月21日(星期四) 晚上6時至8時
地點:
香港中環善慶街1號Gallery EXIT安全口畫廊
開放時間：
星期一至六
1100-1900
Gallery
EXIT 安全口畫廊將舉行方琛宇的首個畫廊個展
-《記憶障礙》。展覽將展示方氏的錄像裝置新作。作品利用多個屏幕，展示不同的零碎片段，影片取至各種影像紀錄裝置，超八米厘攝影機，視訊攝影機，數碼攝影機，照相機及電話。影像主要描繪不同人物的臉孔，他們從不同的屏幕中出現，然後消失。
回憶是根據相關的心理狀態，或是按照時序而出現？方氏對回憶的隨機性產生疑問。他以個人經歷作為藍本，藉著動態影像的顯現與消褪，編織記憶與想像的經驗。片段中滲透情感的場景，都是源自他個人面對的內心衝突，以及探求未知的青澀衝動。藉著這些零碎的敘事片段，方氏提出問題：我們會否想忘記？
方氏現於香港中文大學修讀藝術碩士課程。他的錄像、裝置及新媒體作品曾於亞洲及歐洲的展覽及放映會展示。他於2009年獲香港當代藝術雙年獎
- 青年藝術家獎, 其作品亦獲澳門藝術館中國行為藝術文獻收藏。
