“Ways of Running and Embracing”
「奔跑和擁抱的方式」
6 - 28 Apr 2023
Floating Projects, Hong Kong
LAU Sze Man & Ailsa WONG
Synopsis:
Ways of Running and Embracing is a joint exhibition by Lau Sze Man and Ailsa Wong featuring their paintings and video works. The title of the exhibition comes from a book by Eduardo Galeano, a Uruguayan writer who is known for his episodic form of writing, in which he describes writing as his way of striking out and embracing. Lau and Wong believe that art is not just a piece of text or commentary based on the world. Rather, it can become part of the beings in the world, and a way to run and embrace the world. In the creation process that is non-research-based yet introspective, a narrative structure is almost non-existent. To verify and communicate emotions, images were extracted from fragmented life experiences, as meanings disappeared and were re-established repeatedly.
Lau Sze Man
Fragmented images are ridded of a strong narrative, leaving only recurring scenes: First, the split second of a yawn; second, the passing of a mirror on the street; third, in a dream. Pieces of impulses.
Ailsa Wong
To resist the dreariness of the one-dimensional world, searching for myth-like enlightenments in a life where you cannot grasp the focal point. Vague, fable-like ballads that lack the keynote, separate and reconnect over and over again like a pendulum in the flat dimension.
Lau:
The birthplace is a short place, whereas raindrops in Taipei are long. Rain that goes straight down or sideways. Clouds are heavier than the grassland. Clichés that kept turning up in the days.
Wong:
Reaching freedom in passion and frustration.
展覽簡介：
《奔跑和擁抱的方式》 是劉詩敏和黃雅珊的聯展，主要展出劉與黃的繪畫及錄像作品。展名源於擅長將短篇拼湊的烏拉圭作家 Galeano ，所提及以書寫作為反擊和擁抱的方式。劉、黃相信藝術不只是關於世界的一個文本或評論，而是可成為世界中的一物，並作為奔跑及擁抱世界的方式。在非研究式但內省的創作中敘事結構幾乎缺失。以確認和共享情感為目的，在碎片化的生活經驗中提取穿插的意象，意義在消散或建立中不斷輪迴。
劉詩敏
散碎的畫面抹去強烈的敘事，只留下反覆出現的意象：第一次在打哈欠那一秒，第二次是在街上一面擦身而過的鏡，第三次在夢中。零碎的衝動。
黃雅珊
對抗單向度世界的無聊，在無法指向中心結構的生活中尋找近乎神話般的啟示。語焉不詳的寓言式歌謠缺少了主旨，在扁平的維度中像鐘擺一樣反覆割裂及相連。
劉：
出生地是一個很短的地方，台北的雨水很長。打直或者打橫下的雨。白雲比草地重。不斷在日子裏穿插陳腔濫調。
黃：
在熱情和沮喪中達至自由。
works
Single Channel Video
5’02”
2023
Archival inkjet print on paper
60 x 90 cm (without frame)
71.5 x 101.5 cm (with frame)
Edition 1/3
2022
Archival inkjet print on paper
72 x 88 cm (without frame)
84 x 100 cm (with frame)
Edition 1/3
2022
Archival inkjet print on paper
66 x 54 cm (without frame)
79.5 x 67.5 cm (with frame)
Edition 1/3
2022
Archival inkjet print on paper
60 x 60 cm (without frame)
75 x 75 cm (with frame)
Edition 1/3
2022
Archival inkjet print on paper
70 x 70 cm (without frame)
83 x 83 cm (with frame)
Edition 1/3
2022
Archival inkjet print on paper
44 x 66 cm (without frame)
55.5 x 77.5 cm (with frame)
Edition 1/3
2023
Archival inkjet print on paper
49.5 x 40.5 cm (without frame)
59 x 50 cm (with frame)
Edition 1/3
2022
Archival inkjet print on paper
24 x 40 cm (without frame)
34 x 50 cm (with frame)
Edition 1/3
2022