Anonymity 不知名

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The Debut Solo Exhibition of Silas Fong 方琛宇首個個人展覽

年輕藝術家方琛宇在日常生活中擅用匿名者的角色探究各種人與人之間的關係，其着眼點在於表現公共與私人之間的拉鋸。方氏靜靜地攝取了位於實在與虛擬空間中不確定而又隨機的美學特質，表現於攝影、錄像、裝置及行為藝術中。

不知名：未知或陌生的狀態或特性。當此詞出現在眼前或浮現在腦海時會有甚麼感覺？匿名地接觸其他人或被其他人接觸的感覺又是怎樣？到底是未知引發好奇心還是好奇心促成更多的未知？我們每天上班上學、到餐廳用膳甚或瀏覽網站途中，總會遇上許多過路人。於我們來說，他們都是沒有名字、陌生又遙遠的。這是否意味著我們跟這些人就沒有相互關係？正因為地點及身分均不熟悉，一些不知名的感覺與關係隨之而生。從另一方面理解「不知名」就是不著名，亦是方氏對其作為新晉藝術家於本地藝壇地位的一種解讀。

Young artist Silas Fong Sum-yu is making good use of being anonymous in his everyday life to investigate the relation between people, focus on the tension between public and private. Silas Fong silently captured the aesthetics features of uncertainty and randomness in tangible places and intangible spaces. Silas Fong shows his disillusions through investigation in the form of photograph, video, installation and performance.

Anonymity: the quality or state of being unknown or unacknowledged. What is the feeling of approaching someone or being approached anonymously? Does anonymity induce curiosity or curiosity generates anonymity? Everyday when we are going to work, eating in restaurant or surfing on internet, we would come across hundreds of strangers, they are nameless, unidentified and incognito. Does that mean we have no connections with them? Anonymous feelings and relations are being generated when location and people are unidentified. The artist takes an anonymous role in the local art scene, suggesting his state of emergence and not being well-known.

開幕表演｜Opening Performance: 1 Nov 2008, 4:30pm
展覽結束｜Exhibition ends 19 Nov 2008
免費入場｜Free Admission
策展人｜Curator: 羅偉珊 Susie LAW Wai-shan

藝術家簡歷 | Artist Biography :
方琛宇於香港成長及接受教育，2008年畢業於香港浸會大學視覺藝術系。除藝術創作外，他亦有志於從事研究，行政，策展及評論等不同藝術範疇。方氏常以混合媒介、攝影及裝置等媒介進行創作，透過介入各種關係進行探索，特別關注日常生活、感知、時間、金錢、陌生人及大眾媒體等題材之相互關係。最近以錄像、行為藝術及超媒體進行一系列試驗。

Born and based in Hong Kong. Silas Fong received his BA (Hons) Visual Arts from the Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University in 2008. Fong worked on mixed media, photography and installation. He is especially interested in daily life, perception, time, relationship, money, strangers and the mass media. His research bases on his engagement into social and personal relationships. Recently, he experiments ideas through video, performances and hypermedia.　http://www.silasfong.com

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