Past Exhibitions
Latency
21 October - 2 December 2017
Adrian CORKE (AU)
CHAN Man Chun (HK)
Mark CHUNG (HK)
HUNG Jin (HK)
Virginia LO (HK)
Lauren REDICAN (NZ)
Moses TAN (SG)
Curated by Isabella Ng and
Kay Mei Ling Beadman
21 October - 2 December 2017
Opening: Saturday 21 October, 4-7pm
Hours: Wednesday to Saturday, 1-6pm
Hidden Space is pleased to present Latency, a group exhibition featuring seven artists who examine the idea of latency in their practice. Latency - the state of existing but not yet being manifest; of lying dormant until circumstances are right for development. The artist’s studio and the art space are physically latent sites, spaces that only function when they are activated. Likewise the artwork itself is activated by the viewer. From a concealed reality, a hidden power, an unseen presence, an as yet unrealised potential, these artists explore latency in artworks ranging from video to photography, drawing, painting, and installed objects.
Latency installation views
Adrian CORKE (AU)
"My art practice synthesises the many fragments of my memory and experience - juxtapositions of time, culture and place. These relationships connect me to the world, help distil my thinking and provide a process for deeper inquiry. Ultimately, they manifest in the union between the intuitive and the formal, the spiritual and the mundane. The studio is full of latent possibilities."
Adrian Corke
Moon #1, 2017
Acrylic on wood panel, 30 cm diameter
CHAN Man Chun (HK)
Through combined elements of harmony, rhythm, symmetry and warm light, Calling references a framework of symbols common amongst a spectrum of belief systems. The small scale of the work is inviting rather than forbidding, encouraging a sense of security and belonging.
Chan Man Chun
Calling, 2017
Painted wood, LED lights, 30 x 30 x 7 cm
Mark CHUNG (HK)
One of an ongoing photographic series of weathered cigarette advertisements. These are illegally painted commercial murals, hidden away in obscure corners of Hong Kong. Advertising that by design was always rarely seen is now being reclaimed by the walls.
Mark Chung
just murals, 2017
Inkjet print, 77.5 x 95.7 cm
HUNG Jin (HK)
An ongoing series that investigates the implications of daily moments through candid photography. In this juxtaposition of images, we are invited to closely examine the minutiae of our everyday experience, surroundings and relationships.
Hung Jin
Untitled, 2017
Inkjet prints on archival glossy paper,
each 16.5 x 24 cm
Virginia LO (HK)
Lo examines the familiar; the streets and places of ordinary neighbourhoods in Hong Kong. In the process, fragments of time and place become strange and evocative of human presence through the signs and marks left behind. There are glimpses of another Hong Kong, an imaginary, atmospheric place that co-exists in the same time and space.
Virginia Lo
Before Dawn, 2017
Oil on paper mounted on linen in wooden frame,
30 x 26.5 x 4 cm
Lauren REDICAN (NZ)
In this static video, two objects are held. It's impossible to be sure what these objects are, they have colour and form, they have a physicality, they exist as both objects and marks. The objects never touch. There is tension, potentiality, but for what? There is "a yet-undecided relationship, a yet-undecided use."
Lauren Redican
Now, 2015
Still from video, 04:06
Moses TAN (SG)
"A melancholic imagined film still inspired by the political situation of being queer in Singapore. The constant wait: waiting for equality, waiting for change in archaic mindsets, waiting for a future."
Moses Tan
We can’t go on living like this, 2017
Graphite on 300gms watercolour paper, 21 x 30 cm
