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In the Feature Area & Window Gallery
August 26-September 26
Hsin-Yi Huang & Annie Foong
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You'll find pictures from the opening.
| Hsin-Yi Huang’s ceramic work is motivated by the need for self-examination. It is a tool she uses to visually express the encounters she has had with people and the events that occur around her. Huang draws references from organisms found in nature. She is attracted by their fragility as well as their strength; for example, “flowers are about the most delicate objects I know, yet I find the life they portray to be unquestionable. I use such contradictions to represent different possible perspectives of truths in life. As I form my work, every decision I make clarifies for me who I am and why I chose one path over another.” Her preferred medium is porcelain. Enamored by its whiteness and translucency, she is also intrigued by its strength even when worked to paper-thinness. The use of dark glazes on the porcelain body creates a contrast that helps accentuate textures and edges, joints and intersections, overlapping layers and even the shallowest of recesses. Pictured: "Offering" ceramic sculpture |
 | Annie Foong takes straightforward, yet moody black/white photographs. She has entitled her photography in this show "Basic Mechanics". Says Foong, “Old typewriters, cameras and mechanical things are hugely fascinating. They are first and foremost functional: Every gear in its right place, and every clasp clips exactly. I see pride of work where each part is engineered to last, and the sum of the parts designed to do a job. And when they do last a hundred years, their beauty becomes ever more transcendental. I see sensuous curves, captivating symmetry, precise lines. Mechanical things respond - I press a key, a hammer strikes; I turn a knob, a gear clicks. And with every response, a slice of human knowledge lies waiting to be re-discovered. We cannot do that to a Touchscreen or Smartphone with a dead battery. In these basic mechanics, we shall find a time capsule of human history. Therefore, I take pictures of them.”
Pictured: "Pause & See" b/w photograph | | | | | | | | | | Some Images from the show
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