Cam WONG: An isolated chapter  黃麗茵《斷章》

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Cam WONG
​an isolated chapter 

5 July - 3 August 2013

Four sets of print works offer Cam Wong's detailed observations on life. Her etchings, composed of simple geometric shapes, document the passing of time. "An isolated chapter", from which the exhibition takes its name, is a 3 by 3 metre installation of 425 seemingly identical prints made from a single copper plate. Through an arduous routine of inking, pressing and buffing, the pattern on paper fades with every impression as the sunken lines on metal gradually meld into a smooth plane.
 
This earnest approach is in part a form of self-training for the artist as the repetitiveness sets pace for meditation. With the imminence of disappearance, the changing state in the prints attests to the subtle differences of events in time, and brings about a paradoxical awareness of being. The consciousness of such echoes Wong's romanticised vision of the transient nature of life. The resulting constellation is both a sequence of experience and a poetic display of timelessness. Her works create alternative spaces, allowing viewers to stop and ponder.

黃麗茵
​《斷章》 

2013年7月5日至8月3日

四組版印的作品顯現駐澳門藝術家黃麗茵對生命的觀察。 黃氏的銅版畫由簡單的幾何形狀組成，紀錄著時間的流逝。「斷章」，也就是展覽名稱的由來，是一幅三米乘以三米的裝置，由425幅如出一轍的銅印版畫所組成。經過辛勞的工序 - 墨印、擠壓與拋光，銅片上的刻紋慢慢地變得平滑，紙上的圖案並隨著每一次的壓印漸漸淡化。 
 
這懇切的創作手法在某層次上是藝術家的自我訓練，重複的動作為冥想切下步伐。版畫中的細微差別相應著/見証著世事持續變遷；圖案的逐步消失卻矛盾地是「存在」的提示。這個領悟亦呼應著黃氏對浮生的浪漫觀。黃氏完成的作品既是一系列對生活的體驗，也是一份充滿詩意的永恆展示。她的作品創造另類空間，讓觀眾停下來思考。