​The Chronicle of Disappearance 《消失記事》

The Chronicle of Disappearance

24 November - 10 January 2013

Gallery EXIT presents "The Chronicle of Disappearance", a group exhibition featuring works by LAM Hoi Sin, KONG Chun Hei, KONG Yiu Wing, Ivy MA and Christine NG Mien Yin.
 
The exhibition takes its name from the film "Chronicle of a Disappearance" by Palestinian director and actor Elia Suleiman. Dealing with themes of liminality, loss and disappearance, the movie develops through a series of seemingly unconnected cinematic tableaux. Similarly this exhibition explores different notions of disappearance articulated across the conceptual, personal and social realms. Through procedures of imperfections, erasures, augmentations and rewritings the featured works are individual portrayals of absence and dissociation from reality. Each of these tableaux offer a rich elaboration of erasure as a way of appropriating one's own personal history, memory and presence.

Interpretive drawings by LAM Hoi Sin continue to explore the ambiguities of found images through which the original subsumes into disappearance. "Dust and Scratches (No Blank)" by KONG Chun Hei is a looped projection of ten monochromatic drawings of image-less film. The work underscores the abundance of information and the possibility of ontological existence in an alleged void. KONG Yiu Wing's hallucinatory screenprint-paintings based on satellite cartography defy the issue of life under constant scrutiny through overlaying, superimpositions and effacement. Ivy Ma explores the interstice in perpetual remembering through acts of erasure in her palimpsest drawings. Christine NG Mien Yin re-appropriates nature, by deletion of human presence in her print transfers of Hong Kong landscape, resulting in surreal visualizations of an imagined reality.

《消失記事》
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2012年11月24日至12月22日

安全口畫廊呈獻聯展《消失記事》，參展藝術家包括：林愷倩、鄺鎮禧、江耀榮、馬瓊珠和黃敏音。
 
是次展覽取名自伊利亞.蘇萊曼 (Elia Suleiman) 執導並演出的巴勒斯坦電影 《失蹤紀年》(Chronicle of a Disappearance, 1996)，它透過探討閾界、失去與消失等議題，發展出一系列看似無關連的電影畫面。相類似地，《消失記事》探討不同在個人、社會領域等有關消失的概念，通過瑕疵、擦除、增強、修改，每件作品都是對「不在」及「脫離現實」的個別描述。精心的刪除正是藝術家挪用個人歷史、記憶與存在的手法。
 
林愷倩繼續探索對現成圖像解讀的含糊。藝術家把原作的畫面納入她奇異的聯想繪畫，使前者的原意漸漸消失。鄺鎮禧的「Dust and Scratches (No Blank)」 是一個循環播放的投影，包含十個單色無影像之菲林繒畫。作品強調表面無物的空間也有充裕的資訊並有「存在」的可能性。江耀榮幻覺般的絲印取材自衛星地圖，通過重疊、覆蓋和擦去對抗持續受監視的生活。馬瓊珠在電影硬照上繪畫，把圖像一層一層地移除，提出不斷的消除是為求追尋回憶裡的空隙。黃敏音利用移印方法從香港景觀刪去人類的痕跡，務求重新佔有大自然。作品展示藝術家對此的超現實想像。