Something behind…
身後‧事

Artist | Damon Tong + Shek Chun Yin
藝術家 | 唐偉傑 + 石俊言

Curator | Helen Ng
策展人 | 吳愷欣

Period 展期 24.9. – 1.11.2009

Exhibition reception 展覽酒會 7.10.2009; 6-9pm

“Something behind…” is a two-man exhibition featuring the work by Damon Tong and Shek Chun Yin, two former administrators of White Tube, an artspace in the Hong Kong Arts Centre, between 2005 and 2008. These two artists’ works are quite different, either in focus or orientation. Framing such different styles in White Tube was deliberately pursued as a curatorial experiment, its confining space forcing and forging relationships above and beyond the artists’ original intentions – an implicit competition emerges, one which enriches as much as it challenges the integrity of the work on display. White Tube’s long and narrow corridor, moreover, limits the way the works could be exhibited, making it look like a space in preparation. An interesting bond is finally found between the two artists, a bond that may or may not have to do with their strikingly parallel biographies. However disparate their manifestations, both share a sense of inwardness and introspection.

“Something behind…” is an exploration of the intimacy that has grown within the confines of this space despite the artists’ resistance to it.

「身後‧事」二人展將展出唐偉傑及石俊言的繪畫及混合媒體作品。唐，石二人畢業於香港藝術學院，於修學時期一起主修繪畫，並於二零零五至二零零八年期間一起參與香港藝術學院附設藝術空間 – 白管子的行政工作。論創作動機或藝術表現，唐與石的作品均十分迥異，要把這兩種不同的風格置於白管子內可說是一項策展上的實驗。這狹窄而帶限制的空間促使二人的正面磨合─ 一種不動聲色地為彼此的創作及藝術呈現帶來挑戰的競爭。白管子本身長而窄的走廊特質常常限制著不同的表現形式，讓這展覽場地往往局限於「準備」的狀態。是次展覽以唐及石由空間管理人轉變為展出者這個身份的倒置作為框架，隨之有趣地衍生出一種親密性，而這又與他們的類似背景及共同經歷帶著似是而非的聯繫。然而，儘管藝術表現上是這樣不同，二人作品內的自省及感懷卻又那樣相近。

「身後‧事」旨在探索這個空間衍生出的親密性 ─ 那關係顯現於局限中，卻超越我們的感知。

This is an event of October Contemporary
十月當代節目