‘Afterward…’

Mixed Media
混合媒介
Dimension Variable
尺寸不定
2017

My works are usually site-specific works, therefore, they hardly conserved but only part of the pieces or even just images/video records. When a site-specific work detached from the the site, the work will lose its meaning of existence. The site from a particular time and space will bring to the present exhibition space through the visual records, however, the meaning of the work will be left behind at the ‘specific site’ in the past. I don’t want to just showing the visual records, but through the reoccuring process, link up the site in the past to the present exhibition space. A similar theme I had explored before – the nature of an exhibition space will be changed due to the process of artists installing their works, an exhibition space will be transformed from a neutral space to someone’s, in this case, artist’s place.
This is an experiment. It is almost impossible to have the same experience or feeling of creating the site-specific work through visual records. As the surrounding has changed, the new site will bring a new meaning of space. The different of the surroundings will affect my response to the works. This may lead to a new series of work or an extension to explore the nature of space.

作品往往因場所性質的關係以不能完整地保留,留下的多數只有影像或錄像。當一些與特定場所有關係的作品與地方分離後,失去原有存在的目的意義。紀錄的影像被展示在另一個新的空間,經此令作品從過去的場所帶到現在的展場,意義重新定位及詮釋,同時亦將兩個不相關的時空因影像而連接上,重新探討作品與展場的關係,付予新的場所意義。類似的題材亦曾探討過──展場空間因藝術家及作品佈置過程,從而將一個中性的展場空間轉化成某特定屬性或人物的空間。
這是一次實驗。在影像上重拾當時創作的感覺是不可能,因環境已轉變,新的空間場所必然帶來新的空間意義。場所的改變令到自身對作品的回應亦轉變,而新的回應為過往的作品帶來新的可能及延續。






 
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