Genevieve CHUA & Trevor YEUNG: shadow in the dark  蔡艾芳與楊沛鏗《漆黑中的影子》

Genevieve CHUA & Trevor YEUNG
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21 October – 19 November 2011

Gallery EXIT is pleased to present "shadow in the dark", a joint exhibition between Genevieve Chua and Trevor Yeung. The artists share a common interest in exploring the fear of and ambiguities springing from the unknown. Whereas Chua’s process involves the reinterpretation of archetypal Southeast Asian horror to form new narratives, Yeung morphs his daily encounters and transform them into personal mythologies. In this exhibition, these fabricated narratives are realized through drawings, photography, video and installations.

First shown in the Atelier at Singapore National Museum in 2010, Chua’s Full Moon and Foxes is part of a sequel exploring the themes of youth and sexuality. The video begins with the spirit of a fox waking up alone from the pack. Disengaged from her human vessel, she embarks on a search for other lost souls.  The spirits’ nocturnal journey is a tale of transition and acceptance when they find their young corpuses have begun to decay.

Adinandra Belukar is a set of black graphite drawings accompanied by a video animation of tree-crowns in night vision. Devoid of any narrative, silvery jagged graphite lines shimmer against their black background. The title refers to regrowth vegetation on degraded soils, where primary forests had been cleared for development. Only specific species survive in these conditions and they occupy much of the marginalized spaces throughout Singapore.

Yeung obsessively marks the surface of wood with improvisatory triangular mesh, which is the basis of the ongoing Patience Practice series. The act of drawing is one of restraint as each stroke is the artist’s tool of distraction. The same patterns reappear in Yeung’s hidden-shot prints where he makes an attempt to preserve and possess the subject. His works hold an antagony between longing and fear of interaction.


Genevieve Chua participated in the Singapore Biennale 2011 and the BMW Young Artist Series at the Singapore Tyler Print Institute (2010). Recent solo exhibitions include “Raised as a Pack of Wolves” presented by the M1 Singapore Fringe Festival (2009) and “Full Moon and Foxes”, an installation commissioned by the National Museum of Singapore as part of the Singapore Art Show (2009). Chua graduated from Lasalle-SIA College of Arts Singapore in 2004.

Trevor Yeung graduated from Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University in 2010. He is the recipient of the Blue Lotus Gallery Award at the 2010 graduate exhibition and subsequently had his first solo show “C erry Pop”. Yeung also had a solo installation “System01” at the 1A Space Booth, ART HK 11.
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蔡艾芳與楊沛鏗
《漆黑中的影子》

2011年10月21日至11月19日

安全口畫廊將呈獻蔡艾芳與楊沛鏗的聯展《漆黑中的影子》。兩位藝術家著力探討人性對潛在混沌中的「未知」與所產生之恐懼 。蔡氏把東南亞通傳的恐怖神話融合於新的故事，楊氏則把日常生活所目睹和遇過的事構成獨屬於個人的傳記。在是次展覽，藝術家透過繪圖、攝影、錄像和裝置藝術娓娓道來虛幻的故事 。

蔡艾芳的《Full Moon and Foxes》在2010新加坡國家博物館Atelier首次展出，亦是蔡氏探討青春期與性取向系列的一部分。故事的開首，鏡頭特寫一隻狐狸仙醒來發現同伴消失得無影無蹤。與軀體分隔的她決定去尋找其他流離失所的獨舞靈魂。 她們的黑夜旅程比喻自我「轉變」與「接受」的成熟過程。當找到她們曾經佔用的身軀時，肉體已經開始腐爛，這些孤魂從此就失去了依附之身。

《Adinandra Belukar》是一套透過夜視捕足樹冠的視頻動畫和黑鉛繪圖組成的作品系列。作品沒有採用敘事結構。如爆破火花的鉛筆線在黑色的紙上若隱若現地閃爍。作品名稱來自一種具有獨特生態環境的熱帶雨林。經過砍伐，泥土中的養份大量流失，少量植物品種能在這環境下笜壯成長。這種雨林佔領新加坡的邊緣地帶。

楊沛鏗在他連續的《Patience Practice》系列中，隨心所欲地在木板刻上三角線網。繪畫的過程是一種自我克制練習，每一筆都是藝術家用來分散注意力的工具。同樣的圖案也在楊氏的偷拍攝影作品出現。在照片上，線條保存同時攻佔圖中主角。楊沛鏗的作品充滿矛盾，一方面是藝術家欲動的憧憬，別一方面是他對建立人際關係的憂慮。 


蔡艾芳曾參與2011年新加坡雙年展及2010年Singapore Tyler Print Institute的BMW Young Asian Artist Series。 近來的個人展覽包括新加坡M1藝穗節內的《Raised as a Pack of Wolves》（2009）及被新加坡國家博物館委託創作的裝置藝術《Full Moon and Foxes》(2009)。蔡氏2004年畢業於新加坡拉薩爾新航藝術學院。

楊沛鏗在2010年香港浸會大學視覺藝術院畢業。同年獲得畢業展的Blue Lotus Gallery Award，隨後更在該畫廊舉辦首個個人展覽《Cerry Pop》。楊氏亦在2011年度香港國際藝術展的1a Space單位展出個人裝置作品《System01》。