Category: Exhibition

  • Anonymity 不知名

    My first solo exhibition · 1–19 November 2008
    Artist Commune, Cattle Depot Artist Village, Hong Kong
    Curated by Susie LAW Wai-shan

    Anonymous encounters connect the works in Anonymity: strangers passing through a lift, people meeting online, and the exchanges through which an emerging artist tries to enter the art world. Photography, video, installation and performance test the uncertain boundary between public space and private experience.

    Visitors at the opening of Anonymity, with Art Map on the wall
    Opening of Anonymity, Artist Commune, 1 November 2008.

    Opening Performance

    Live video and projection during the exhibition opening · 2008

    As guests ate at the opening, a person holding a video camera filmed them. The live video feed was projected onto a large wall, bringing the visitors’ activity into the exhibition as it happened.

    A guest eating appears in the live video projected on a large wall at the opening of Anonymity
    Opening Performance, Anonymity, Artist Commune, 1 November 2008. Live projection of guests eating.

    Art Map

    Business cards, display panels and signing · 2008

    Business cards collected at art events are arranged on panels corresponding to those events. The card owners are invited to sign beside their cards when the work is exhibited. See Art Map.

    Business cards and event invitations arranged on the wall
    Art Map: collected business cards and event invitations.
    A visitor examining the Art Map display panels
    A visitor signing beside a business card in Art Map
    A video camera beside the Art Map display panels

    Stolen Times for Sale

    Video installation and performance · 2008

    Lift journeys interrupted for a few seconds become recordings offered for sale. The exhibition brings the encounters, their prices and the act of purchasing time into the same room. See the work and video documentation.

    Catalogue of time intervals offered for sale in Anonymity
    A visitor viewing Stolen Times for Sale in the exhibition

    When the Door Opens

    Video · 2008

    When the Door Opens projected in a darkened exhibition space
    Visitors watching the projection of When the Door Opens

    Inside / Outside

    Four photographic light boxes · 2008

    Four Inside / Outside light boxes installed beside the computer work in Anonymity
    Inside / Outside and Surveil the Strangers, installation view.
    Inside / Outside — photographic light box 1
    Inside / Outside — photographic light box 2
    Inside / Outside — photographic light box 3
    Inside / Outside — photographic light box 4

    Surveil the Strangers

    Weblog and computer installation · 2008

    A visitor using the computer installation Surveil the Strangers

    At the opening

    Visitors gathered at Artist Commune for the opening of Anonymity
    Original exhibition introduction · English

    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.

    繁體中文 · 原展覽簡介

    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。

    Exhibition catalogue

  • Current – 視覺藝術院畢業展 2008

    近60位首屆香港浸會大學視覺藝術院畢業生將於英式歷史建築啟德校園展出多方面的學習和探索,由繪畫、雕塑、設計、裝置、陶瓷、玻璃、至互動媒體等多範疇的作品。

    開 幕:2008年6月20日(星期五) 下午6時
    展 期:2008年6月21日(星期六)至 7月20日(星期日)
    時 間:星期一至日 上午10時至晚上6時
    地 點:香港浸會大學視覺藝術院 觀塘道51號 (地圖)

    網 頁:http://va.hkbu.edu.hk/current
    查 詢:2353 5627/ va@hkbu.edu.hk
    導 賞:有興趣參與導賞的學校和團體,歡迎致電預約。

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