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


DURATION: 2014-11-24 ~ 2014-11-30
VENUE: Central Courtyard JCCAC; L7-12A
ADDRESS: 30 Pak Tin Street, Shek Kip Mei, HONGKONG

Parallel 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). 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. the photos in the X-axis orchestrate the grand infrastructure of China), and the micro-private spaces between reality and expectation (i.e. the photos in the Y-axis hinge on artists’ mental response to China’s modernization). Or, they can explore the issues revolving around all defined and undefined, harmonic or troubled time-space behind the photos (i.e. the Z-axis) and develop their own strategies of display, which may embody the passions of identity or dynamics of diaspora. Each space newly created can open up a period in time and a set of associations (i.e. the Time or T-axis are also spaces in transition, transformation or empty nowadays). The parallel spaces, which are the CPU of a matrix, are factional or fictional, illusionary or enigmatic; they embrace trajectories historical or temporal, social or personal. The project is open-ended and participatory in the sense that some `blank spaces` can be opened up so that the covert vision of the public can be made overt as the visitors can relocate the photos to the desired locations themselves in between the parallel spaces. These are the citizen spaces created for reflection in the light of the “Great China Dream” or current politics in China.