Displaced Realities – Opening Reception

Oriental VisArt‘s fourth exhibition Displaced Realities opened with a vernissage on 6 April 2011 at 6 p.m. at Carry On Art Contemporian in Plainpalais, Geneva, Switzerland. Again, we were very lucky for the weather; it was a beautiful day and beautiful evening. Guests enjoyed the works by Ayoung Kim (Korea), James Chen-Feng Kao (Taiwan/USA) and Hongjie Ma (China) in the 350 square metre gallery. Oriental VisArt is displaying 17 photographs and 6 drawings in this incredible space. The exhibition will run until 19 April every day at Carry On in Plainpalais, Geneva, Switzerland. We look forward to seeing you there on these sunny Swiss days!

Please enjoy images from the opening reception.

Carry On Art Contemporian

Display view

Display view (Ayoung Kim)

Display view (Hongjie Ma)

Display view (James C. Kao)

Guests

Guests

Guest

Guests

Guests

Guests

Chinese Artist Ma Hongjie

Oriental VisArt is pleased to welcome Chinese Artist Ma Hongjie! Ma Hongjie was born in Luoyang, Hunan Province, China, and is currently living and working in Beijing. He graduated from Wuhan University in Wuchang, Hubei, China and specialises in photography. His works have been shown in the following exhibitions:

Solo Exhibition

2009

Family Belongings    Eastern Europe

2008

Family Belongings Beijing 798 Gallery, Beijing

Group Exhibitions

2003

Group Exhibition Local Central Plains Pingyao

2002

International Photography Festival Exhibition Pingyao

He says,

Since I work in a Natural Geographic Magazine as a photographer and editor I have a lot of opportunities to photograph places that people will never have access to. In China, people’s lives dramatically differ according to where they are geographically located. One famous Chinese saying is “Yi Fang Shui Tu Yang Yi Fang Ren” which means different places cultivate different people. China’s land is so vast, there are deserts, tropical climates, rivers, mountains, etc. The lives in these different places are unlike each other, the rich and the poor, the plateau and the water habitats, draught and rainforest. Therefore I pay attention to how these people inhabit their environments and how these environments mold these people’s lives.

Please enjoy some images of Ma Hongjie’s works!

Location: Chen Baer Huqi Ba Village in Hulunbeier grasslands in Inner Mongolia, Date: at 3pm, 19th August in 2007

Location: The Nansha Islands, Date: 20th May in 2010

Location: Taihang Mountain in He Bei Province, 2007

Location: Qinghai Lake, 2006

Korean Artist Ayoung Kim

Ayoung Kim was born in Seoul, Korea in 1979, and is currently living and working in London. She received a B.A. in Visual Communication Design at Kookmin University in Seoul in 2002, as well as another B.A. (Honours) in Photography at London College of Communication. In 2010, she earned her M.A. in Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art and Design in London. Ayoung specialises in Photography and New Media. Her works have been shown all over Europe and Korea, including:

Solo Exhibitions
2010	Minima Memoria	Street Level Gallery, Glasgow, UK
2009	A Delegation	Window Gallery at Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea
	Ephemera	I-Myu Projects, London, UK
2008	Ephemeral Ephemera	Space VAVA, Seoul, Korea
Group Exhibitions
2010	Summer Exhibition 2010	Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
	Window Vol.2 (Upcoming)	Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea
	Hi, Mr. Lonely	Gana Contemporary and Gana Art Busan, Seoul and Busan, Korea
	4482 Contemporary Korean Artists in London	Bargehouse, London, UK
	Osannolik Digital Festival	Kulturnatten, Växjö, Sweden
	Ways of Seeing (Part II)	I-Myu Projects, London, UK
2009	2009 Seoul International Photography Festival	Garden 5, Seoul, Korea
	Korea Tomorrow	SETEC, Seoul, Korea
	Salon09	Four Corners Film, London, UK
	Aim High: Joong-Ang Fine Arts Prize Awarded Artists Show	Hangaram Museum, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea
	Korean Eye: Moon Generation	Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
	The Cinematic-Montage	Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
	The Irony	Kimi Art, Seoul, Korea
2008	The Series of Boundary between Reality and Fantasy	Museum in Gangnamgu Office, Seoul, Korea
	4482 Contemporary Korean Artists in London	Bargehouse, London, UK
	T.error: Your Fear Is an External Object	Menupont Galeria, Mucsarnok (Kunsthalle) Budapest, Budapest, Hungary
	The 1st Bridge: Scope in The Bridge	Gana Art 25th Anniversary, Insa Art Center, Korea
	Welcome Home Party	Gallery Sun Contemporary, Seoul, Korea
	30th Joong-Ang Fine Arts Prize Selected Artists Show	Hangaram Museum, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea
	Lateral Thinkers – from the Mind to the Wall inDarmstadt days of photography 2008	Mathildenhohe, Darmstadt, Germany

She says,

“‘It happens that the stage-sets collapse.’ – Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus (Camus, 1955)

These photographs represents various events happened recently in the world or the traces or ambiences of after-the-accidents. I transform them into the stage sets/models I created. Researching of each tragic story, I take pictures from my environment and the actual scene of accident/crime, then alter the images and move them into stage sets according to each context of event.

The reality effect from built-up photographs exists only through camera with proper angle and composition and eventually in the final image, as the stage sets are temporary construction. These can be 3-dimensional photo montages or just stage-sets. Also, these are Ephemera (Items of short-lived duration, use, or interest) of Ephemera (a short-lived thing). Most of the title of each photograph is referring news headline, however, recent pieces have seemingly abstract titles as the work gradually became autonomous rather than dutifully following the narrative line.”

Please enjoy images of Ayoung’s works!

"Entertainers' Suicides in Succession, Why?, 10 Feb, 2007", digital c-type print, 160 x 120 cm (Edition 3+2AP) / 100 x 76 cm (Edition 5+2AP), 2007

"Accept North Korea into the Nuclear Club or Bomb It Now, 11 Oct, 2006", digital c-type print, 160 x 120 cm (Edition 3+2AP) / 100 x 76 cm (Edition 5+2AP), 2007

"Dead Whale Found on the Shore of Jeju Island, 12 Nov, 2006", digital c-type print, 160 x 120 cm (Edition 3+2AP) / 100 x 76 cm (Edition 5+2AP), 2007

"British Teacher Found Buried in Bathtub of Sand, 28 March, 2007", digital c-type print, 160 x 120 cm (Edition 3+2AP) / 100 x 76 cm (Edition 5+2AP), 2008

Korean Artist Choi Ji Youn

Choi Ji Youn was born in Seoul, Korea in 1976, where she is still living and working, specialising in photography. She graduated from Seoul University of Arts in 1999 where she received a B.A. in Photography. In 2005, she earned a degree in Multimedia at École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, France. Her works have been shown at exhibitions in Korea and France, including:

Solo Exhibitions

2007

Taxidermied Images, Duckwon Gallery, Seoul, Korea

2006

Nocturne, CROUS Beaux-Arts Gallery, Paris, France

La mere noire, Hanjin art Centre, Seoul, Korea

2004

Photography, Korean Culture Centre in France, Paris,  France

Group Exhibitions

2010

Main Gauche, Kring Creative Culture Space, Seoul, Korea

2009

SeogyoSixty2009: The game for respect, Gallery Sangsangmadang, Seoul, Korea

2009

Injung Game, KT&G Sang Sang Madang, Seoul, Korea

2008

Opening Reception & Review, Alternative Space Team, Seoul, Korea

2007

Inside Sounds Namsong Museum, Gapyoung, Korea

She says,

Clairoscuro

The settings for my figure photographs are unfamiliar spaces that I have never visited. Like immovable marionettes, the figures remain relaxed, in a subtle tension with the space. The space is like a stage. In my photographs, such space appears somewhat awkward, out of perspective, vague, even weird. The figures have natural but clumsy postures. As in my previous work, their image blurs due to long exposure, to imply their psychological state. These figures appear to gradually adapt to their surroundings, escaping their initial awkwardness.

The memories I have of taking photographs helps me perceive space, regard it as familiar, and enable me to recognize my own psychological space. Through long exposures at night I capture figures and represent psychological states different to those in the daytime. The poses of my figures and certain vague spatial factors enable me to perceive space anew. It is not right to objectify all in our space and time only with our experience. I intend to showcase the space we haven’t perceived and our appearance in this space. I enable viewers to look back on their surroundings by suggesting the burred boundary between reality and non-reality, and uncertainty of experimental memories.

Please enjoy some of Choi Ji Youn‘s work images!

“Ps_45″, lambda print, 120 x 120 cm, 2007

 

“Pp_n21″, lambda print, 120 x 120 cm, 2005

 

“Experimental Conduct II”, lambda print, 120 x 120 cm, 2007

 

“Ps_n37″, lambda print, 120 x 120 cm, 2006