Hung Keung, I Love My Country's Sky, 10'', HD Digital Video 1920 x 1080
Edition of 5, 1997-2013
Schoeni Art Gallery present the first retrospective exhibition of Hung Keung in conjunction with his solo representation of the gallery at Art Basel Hong Kong (Booth 3D16). The show feature five of the artist's most acclaimed short video works between 1997 and 2007, including award-winning I Love My Country's Sky (1997-2013), Transmigration (1998-2013), CD ROM: Human Being and Moving Images (2000), Upstairs / Downstairs: Stories of Human Activities Told in the 1440 Minutes of a 24-Hour Stretch (2005-2012) and Eating Noodle (2007-2013).
This exhibition provides an overview of his artistic progression over the decade, as well as the inspiration and conception behind each of the works. All works (with the exception of CD ROM: Human Being and Moving Images) has been reworked by Hung Keung and will be presented in a new HD Digital version for the purpose of this exhibition.
Hung Keung, Transmigration, 9'', HD Digital Video 1920 x 1080, Edition of 5, 1998-2013
Hung Keung, CD ROM Human Being and Moving Images
Interactive CD ROM, Edition of 10, 2000
Hung Keung, Upstairs/ Downstairs: Stories of Human Activities
Told in the 1,440 Minutes of a 24–hour Stretch, 12
In his installations and performances, Hung Keung explores how people relate to the moving image. His works create a dialogue between the space, the viewer, and the artist’s research in technology. An art form influenced by the West, new media art is the experimental platform Hung Keung uses to play with the materiality of time and space. Since 1995, the artist has been involved in the creative and research aspects of film, video and new media art internationally. He focuses on the relationship between the limitations of human beings and the extension of such limitations through interaction and moving images. In one of his latest works, Dao Gives Birth to Thousand of Things / Dao Give Birth to One, Chinese calligraphies, cockroaches, ladybugs and other shapes are projected on the wall in constant motion. This movement, captivating in itself, becomes even more entrancing when a viewer becomes part of it, by walking into the space of the artwork. The interactive installation now uses the image of the spectator, integrating the subject with the projections, the shapes now swarming around and following the moving image of this new body.
About the exhibition
Duration: 22 May - 22 June, 2013
Venue: Schoeni Art Gallery
Courtesy of the artist and Schoeni Art Gallery, for further information please visit www.schoeniartgallery.com.
