An acute manner
Visual Arts
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Edouard Malingue Gallery is pleased to present “An Acute Manner”, Ko Sin Tung’s third solo exhibition with the gallery, showcasing two new site-sensitive installations created specifically for the gallery’s Tin Wan studio. Over the years, Ko has been known for exploring in depth the political dimension of social spaces and everyday experience, acutely capturing transitional moments in life. From a singular perspective that is critically detached and restrained, she represents in various forms — installation, sculpture, painting, photography and video — the procedures and means through which contemporary society disciplines human and non-human bodies.
“An Acute Manner” includes two new site-sensitive installations: the eponymous ‘An Acute Manner’, and ‘Experimental Field’. For the former, which assumes the form of a curtain, Ko employs as slats straightened barbed wires that are generally used to brutally separate public and private spaces. Hung from the ceiling of the gallery space, this electrically powered installation attempts to complicate the relationship between the spatial and the visual by constantly shifting sideways, realigning passive, defensive manoeuvres with active, aggressive threats. ‘Experimental Field’, on the other hand, is a group of low, encompassing barriers; attached to the metallic structures and rods of which are dissected plastic bottles. Incorporating in an eerie fashion everyday wares and vessels anthropomorphised to different extents, ‘Experimental Field’ is the latest iteration of Ko’s moderately constructed matrix of interference-feedback, danger-safety, and destruction-creation.
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