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The Distance / 與過去的距離
2018
Two-channel HD video with sound
Sound Design: Stefan Evan Niedermeyer
Performance videography: Scott Heinrich
Everything exists in continuity.
Before After 以前丶以後 is part visual memoir, part investigation of our connections to place through gestures. Through the process of collecting, learning and re-performing gestures, new meanings are added through adaptation. Like dreams of the past living through veins and imaginations, what was inherited, what was left, was muscle memories and a cluster of dislocated hopes never to be fulfilled. This is an attempt to portray the remembering of a migrated history. The solo exhibition was held at Roslyn Smorgon Gallery, Footscray Community Arts Centre in 2018.
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It’s okay to be temporary
2018
HD video on vertical screen
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Escaping you / 逃避你
2018
Digital print on six georgette panels
Dimension variable
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The Distance / 與過去的距離
2018
Two-channel HD video with sound