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.
S P R A W L
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
Preview night: Thurs 20 June 6-9pm
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