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19/6/2002

Gordon Cheung

Domo Baal, London

Sprawl. Domo Baal is delighted to be presenting Gordon Cheung's solo show and will be opening a new room for a wall-based installation alongside the exhibition of his cut-outs in the upper gallery. Relative to how metropolitan the environment is the denseness of artificial reality and the more it obscures and occludes 'natural' reality.


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INAUGURAL OPENING - Lower gallery: Installation
Upper gallery: Cut-outs on canvas

Essay by Roy Exley

Domo Baal is delighted to be presenting Gordon Cheung's solo show and will be opening a new room for a wall-based installation alongside the exhibition of his cut-outs in the upper gallery.

Relative to how metropolitan the environment is the denseness of artificial reality and the more it obscures and occludes 'natural' reality. With sprawling cities assuming gigantic urban conglomerations the actual distance to non-urban let alone the wilderness is becoming ever greater. Modern living increasingly demands that we are hardwired with devices like telephone systems, personal computer modems and interactive TV and as we adapt to ever changing technologies, conventional relations to distances, positions, time and space are reconfigured.
The datasphere has become the new territory for human interaction.

Gordon Cheung's recent cut-outs respond to this condition and depict a series of fictional datascapes containing undertones of anxiety and something unsettling. The seductive excess of labour is perverse when the accessibilty of computer technology to manipulate visual reality is readily available. But with collage the space between a virtual and the actual is extended to consider the question of what constitutes our reality. On closer inspection the figurative image fragments and reverts to its abstract material components. The shifting blur between virtuality and actuality is where a concern is exposed to prise the tensions of reality for contemplation.

Cheung graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2001. He was a key organiser of 'Assembly' in 2000. He has since exhibited in 'Fakescape' at Mellow Birds in 2000, 'CD1' at Marlborough Fine Arts in 2001, and in 'Unscene' at Gasworks this spring. He will also be taking part in 'Arcadia in the City' at Marble Hill House, Richmond, this summer. Cheung lives and works in London.

Image: Paradise Financial Times and Graph paper on canvas 163 x 220cm 2002

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