Between Sunset And Sunrise
Visual Arts
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Description
Wailok, Janice Southpolep and South Ho explore the uncontrollability under manifested conditions and coincidences in the orderly everyday life in their works. In the process of creation, they examine the powerfulness and powerlessness of human. And associating with their life experiences, the process turns out to be therapeutic to them.Our life is full of fortuities. We call the accidental meetings of people and events coincidence. Things that we believe they are decided could be coincidences. Sunset and sunrise – natural phenomena that we expect day after day. From when does the sun accidentally set from the West but the East? And it happens every day? Repeated coincidences become permanence. What things are purely coincident in our daily life or are they only governed by certain laws, cycle and destiny? And what things are under our control as we believe?Wailok photographs images of shadows of tree leaves on different backgrounds. Through controlling the brightness and colour temperature in the process to create effects that human eyes can hardly distinguish. Wailok examines our sensitivity towards our surrounding and our cognitive ability. Since May 2009, Janice Southpolep has been shooting random imageries appeared in her daily life. Fortuitously, the series of photos is a reflection of her mental state. The accidental encountering of things seems planned; photographing has become her self-healing therapy. On photographs, South Ho draws narrow lines and tiny grids with pens of different colours to fill up the background. Because of the disharmony of the colouring materials, the brushstrokes become uneven, and colours merge and diffuse. The outcome becomes unpredictable. Ho experiments and experiences the unruliness even when things are under his control. The repeated experiment is a training for him.
Note：This event record is compiled from "Hong Kong Visual Arts Yearbook 2012" published by Department of Fine Arts, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
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