A MATRIX OF CONCEPT PHOTOGRAPHY IN THE ERA OF CHINA’S MODERNIZATION

DURATION: 2015-02-01 ~ 2015-03-20
OPENING: 2015-02-01
VENUE: JCCAC Arts Centre
ADDRESS: 30 Pak Tin Street, MTR Exit C, Shek Kip Mei, Hong Kong T. 852-9802 9440 (appointment) artopia_net@yahoo.com

The project features photographic works of 35 artists from China and around the world discoursing about China in the last 25 years. It is about China’s infrastructural space and its associative/ psychological space, and about utopian space and its heterotopias/ dystopian space. ON PARALLEL SPACEParallel Space: A New Matrix of Concept Photography In The Era of China’s Modernization is a project about China in the last 25 years. It is about China’s infrastructural space and its associative/ psychological space, and about utopian space (Thomas More) and its heterotopias (Michel Foucault)/ dystopian space (J.S. Mill). The CPU of a matrix is the Parallel Space which displays a mixture of fact or fiction, illusion or enigma; it also embraces trajectories historical or temporal, social or personal. In this 4D space of “Matrix” (X1-n x Y1-n x Z1-n x TTime), the visitors can review the photos by exploring the grand-narrative spaces between history and storytelling (i.e. photos in the X-axis orchestrate the glamorous infrastructure of China), and the micro-private spaces between reality and expectation (i.e. photos in the Y-axis hinge on artists’ mental response to the physical being of China). They can explore the issues revolving around all defined and undefined, harmonic or troubled time-space behind the photos and develop their own strategies or circumstances of display (i.e. the Z-axis), which may embody the passions of identity or dynamics of diaspora. Each space newly created opens up a period in time and a set of associations (i.e. photos in the time or T-axis can be spaces in transition, transformation or often empty nowadays). The exhibition is an open concept and living event. The geo-territorial space/ platform of MOST can be disturbed, reorganized and adventured by the participation of serious audience. In this light, the project is participatory and open-ended. With the open-up of `blank’ or ‘conceptual’ space, the covert vision of visitors can be made overt by the audience relocating the photos to the desired locations themselves. These are the citizen spaces newly created for reflection in the light of the “Great China Dream” or current politics in China CURATOR︳Andrew Lam 林漢堅 ARCHITECTURE x AUDIO ART︳daDa x William Furlong MATRIX Artist︳ a11-a1n︳Christophe Morin (Paris)、Laurent Dequick (Paris)、Stephaine Hausdorf (Berlin)、Gerard Lang (London)、Jolans Fung馮文耀 (Hongkong)、Frank Lei李銳奮 (Macao)… am1-amn︳Bill Viola (New York)、Oh Jin Sun (Seoul)、Birdy Chu朱迅(Hongkong)、Cui Xiu Wen崔岫聞 (Beijing)、Hong Hao洪浩 (Shanghai)、Cang Xin蒼鑫(Beijing)、Ren Qian任前 (Chongqing)、Zheng Li成力(Lanzhou)、Da Lai Zhong邸乃壯 (Lanzhou)、Yu Qi余極 (Beijing)、Yang Zhi Chiu楊志超 (Beijing)、Ma Jian馬健 (Beijing)… MATRIX︳Sarawut Chutiwongpeti (Bangkok)、daDa (Zhuhai), Yao Jui Chung姚瑞中(Taipei)、Xu Tan徐坦 (Guangzhou)、Wang Jian Wei汪建偉 (Beijing)、Yan Lei顏磊 (Beijing)、Jiang Zhi蔣志 (Beijing)、Yang Yong楊勇 (Shenzhen)、Shao Yi Nong邵逸農 (Beijing)、Zeng Tu曾途 (Chongqing)、Dai Guan Yu戴光鬱 (Chengdu)、Ne Wai Hua倪衛華 (Shanghai)、Wang Nan Ming王南溟 (Shanghai)、Simon Gu吳文正 (Hongkong)、Yvonne Lo 盧婉雯(Hongkong)、Tozer Pak白雙全 (Hongkong)… (Matrix-building by the public)