Pyramid
Visual Arts
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Description
Osage Soho presents Pyramid, the first collaboration between Philippine artists Bea Camacho and Maria Taniguchi. The two artists, both originally from the Philippines, are now living and working in Boston and London respectively. The collaboration arises out of their common interest in the uses of a reductive process to investigate the dialectics of representation and of imagery converging to a single point. Secondly, pyramid can be used as a metaphor for how we come to terms with something monolithic. During the post-modern era, the monolith is not so much physical but something completely dematerialized, in particular the ever persuasive saturation and instantaneous transmission of images left right and center.
Inspired by the late French post-modern theorist Jean Baudrillard’s theory on simulation central for the 1990’s discussion on aesthetics, Pyramid sheds light on how the artists negotiate with the weight of the content [the base of the pyramid] and the weightlessness of dematerialized information [the zenith of the pyramid], and explores whether we can still resurrect something spiritual and eternal with image making. This exhibition forms the bases of a discourse that questions what are the remaining functions of making image at this moment – after the machine, after television, after the internet.
Note：This event record is compiled from "Hong Kong Visual Arts Yearbook 2010" published by Department of Fine Arts, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
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