5 January 2005
For Immediate Release Para/Site Dual Solo 2005
Phoebe’s Vaudevillian Park and Florian’s “Op-scape” Opening Reception 6-8pm, Friday, 14 January, 2005 Exhibition Dates: 15.01.2005 – 19.02.2005 Comic and photography are by no means have become a usual and popular culture, especially among youth. Two emerging artists Phoebe and Florian both work on different artistic forms, however, both engage in the re-interpretation of the plain/2D media via the access of new media or technology. Para/Site has the pleasure to present their solo projects at our new premises. They both explore ways of re/viewing images and questions the notions of creation, illusion and revelations. We are inviting the viewer to heighten their imagination and explore the many possibilities of art itself. Hui’s ambition is to challenge the 2 dimensional boundaries of comics, in order to examine the narrative order and the interrelation among texts and images. A 2-dimensional comic sphere will be re-presented into the 3-dimensional gallery space through the compound of spatial reality and comic’s ‘reality”. Beyond the horizon of the imagination, audiences will not only read or experience the comics, instead, they will be invited to re/view and contemplate the meaning of comics. Facilitated by the interaction between piece and audience interpretation. Instead of photo and video taking, Florian MA will re-create (fabricate) new optical images by various mechanism of images duplication. He is excited to capture the eternal moment from images and motion, to freeze and visualize such time movement. Works that will be exhibited are the Op Art – like images of colour strip manipulation based on the scanning mechanism of a domestic scanner. Due to the various mechanism of other media, new images are hence manipulated and Re-presented under a new order. It inevitably becomes the metaphor to the precedent and which provides a possible new interpretation on the former.