Opening: 3 Oct 2008, 6-9pm Artists: Beatrix Bang, Doris Wong, Hanison Lau, Florian Ma Other participating artist: Samantha Wall, Cheikh Ndlaylyon Venue: Worksound 820 SE Alder Portland, Oregon Exhibition Period: 03/10/2008 - 24/10/2008
Curated by Selina Ho, Reverse Reality is an artist residency and exhibition project that sent four Hong Kong young artists to Portland for a month to create new work informed and inspired by their experiences.
Portland is a city welcoming alternative movement and diverse culture, where people are socially engaging in liberty, environmental conservation and land-use planning. The artists use a variety of on-site mediums and practices to explore alternative representations and perceptions in this city, other than the notions of reality of America very much outlined by financial market, consumerism, the political ideals, and media communication.
Interested in history and memories of urban life of a city, Beatrix Pang undertook a tumblelog project, "Bear wants your story" to collect stories from different walks of life in Portland. (http://bearwantsyourstory.tk/). Doris Wong used to challenge the authoritative value and perception by playing with the ideas of original and copy. She has collected museum and gallery invitation cards in Portland since this residency, and created the replicas in Chinese Gongbi. Hanison Lau’s sculptural installation usually employs Chinese culture as referential languages and poetic properties to fabricate ready-made materials and lost objects. He collected many discarded industrial objects that he found near his living area in Portalnd, and then fabricated them into a miniaturized Chinese classical garden. Florian Ma used to turn urban scenery into conceptual visual elements. Using the gallery as his laboratory, he worked out an installation by mediating the possible combinations between light and space.
It is the first time Hong Kong artists have been collectively shown in Portland. Born around the 1980s, this group of artists are representing the new generation of Hong Kong contemporary art. The project is driven by a desire to generate a new organic force for cultural dialogue, artistic creativity and mobility beyond any forms of institutional and national boundaries.
After the exhibition in Portland, the artists will extend dialogue with other Hong Kong artists and curators who have been other cities of the United States this year. A response exhibition will be presented by Sino Group, Art in Hong Kong, in January 2009. The project is sponsored by the Arts Development Council and the Home Affairs Bureau of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.
Portland is a city welcoming alternative movement and diverse culture, where people are socially engaging in liberty, environmental conservation and land-use planning. The artists use a variety of on-site mediums and practices to explore alternative representations and perceptions in this city, other than the notions of reality of America very much outlined by financial market, consumerism, the political ideals, and media communication.
Interested in history and memories of urban life of a city, Beatrix Pang undertook a tumblelog project, "Bear wants your story" to collect stories from different walks of life in Portland. (http://bearwantsyourstory.tk/). Doris Wong used to challenge the authoritative value and perception by playing with the ideas of original and copy. She has collected museum and gallery invitation cards in Portland since this residency, and created the replicas in Chinese Gongbi. Hanison Lau’s sculptural installation usually employs Chinese culture as referential languages and poetic properties to fabricate ready-made materials and lost objects. He collected many discarded industrial objects that he found near his living area in Portalnd, and then fabricated them into a miniaturized Chinese classical garden. Florian Ma used to turn urban scenery into conceptual visual elements. Using the gallery as his laboratory, he worked out an installation by mediating the possible combinations between light and space.
It is the first time Hong Kong artists have been collectively shown in Portland. Born around the 1980s, this group of artists are representing the new generation of Hong Kong contemporary art. The project is driven by a desire to generate a new organic force for cultural dialogue, artistic creativity and mobility beyond any forms of institutional and national boundaries.
After the exhibition in Portland, the artists will extend dialogue with other Hong Kong artists and curators who have been other cities of the United States this year. A response exhibition will be presented by Sino Group, Art in Hong Kong, in January 2009. The project is sponsored by the Arts Development Council and the Home Affairs Bureau of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.
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