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Is there an order for memories? I wonder how they are arranged so that the scenes in our mind somehow appear randomly. Are they organised according to chronological order or according to the relevance of one’s state of mind? Cinema to me is an art of memories. Cinema works with how the images that one sees are associated with the lost and remembered images and imagined ones. It manipulates the perspective and the perception of time by the audience. In this work I try to create an experience of memories and imagination by letting moving images appear and disappear. Footage ranges from telecined super 8 film, web cam, photographs and digital video cameras at different qualities. It is displayed in a web browsing environment in multi-channels. With different internet connection speed, system of the computer and the dimension of monitor, the work can be viewed differently in the sequential arrangement and content narrated.
Exhibited in 《The Order of Things》a net video art exhibition Netfilmmakers, Copenhagen, Denmark Videotage, Hong Kong
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。
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
Stolen Times for Sale 販賣偷來的時間
2008 Video installation/ Performance 錄像裝置/行為
Surveil the Strangers 跟蹤陌生人
2008 Weblog/Computer installation 網誌/電腦裝置
