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Room 418 (Jiang Art Gallery, Mandarin Oriental Hotel, Central, Feb 25-27, 2011

 

"Between the Cinematic & and Photographic"

A Portfolio of 5 works by Linda C.H. Lai

presented at

ASIA TOP GALLERY
HOTEL ART FAIR 2011
HONG KONG

represented by Jiang Art Gallery (BOOTH 418)

25 - 27 February 2011
Mandarin Oriental Hotel
5 Connaught Road Hong Kong

Press and VIP Preview
25 Feb 12pm - 2pm

AHAF Auction
Preview 25 Feb 12pm - 8pm
Auction 25 Feb 8pm - 9pm

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My profile at Jiang Art Gallery

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While You Were Looking Away (2005) / Linda C.H. LAI

ARTIST'S STATEMENT

I’ve been drawn enormously to the uncanny. In ordinary things there is another life, other dimensions, hidden sounds, or a concealed spirit… This is the kind of picture-maker I am.

I am also particularly drawn to light and shadows. In Chinese, “photography” [摄影 ‘she ying’] literally means “catching the shadows.”


My photography is not about composing, orchestrating.
I mean, my composition is spontaneous and accidental, depending on individual moments of encounter.

My photography is about my presence in the urban space, marks and traces of my drifting mind and city-walking.

Photography is momentary, the articulation of my here-and-now, being there doing. Every photograph, therefore, is a projectile, a forward motion, or else, snatches from the boundless ocean of chaos.

My photographic works have been strongly influenced by my practice and knowledge in cinema. I seek inventive synthesis between still images and digital video. My photograph works are also closely tied to my practice as a city-ethnographer.

(Linda C.H. Lai, 2011)

IMAGE DOCUMENTATION at AHAF

Carnical
While you Melting
Come Stroke  
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