Tiong Ang
dal 8/10/2003 al 21/11/2003
Segnalato da
8/10/2003
Tiong Ang
Florence Lynch Gallery, New York
Prisoners. Multiple Video Installation. For his first one-person exhibition in New York and with the gallery, Tiong Ang presents an exhibition that includes three recent videos shot during his travels in China and South Africa.
Prisoners
Multiple Video Installation
Florence Lynch Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of recent videos
by Dutch artist, Tiong Ang. The exhibition is on view from October 9 to
November 21, 2003. An opening reception will be held at the gallery on
Thursday, October 9, from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m.
For his first one-person exhibition in New York and with the gallery, Tiong
Ang presents an exhibition that includes three recent videos shot during his
travels in China and South Africa.
...Ang functions as the distanced outsider while remaining engaged through
the act of looking.4 His straight-forward 'observational' images, taken
during the artist's peripatetic travels around the world, are moved from the
realm of documentary portraiture of the Other to that of a dream-like
self-portrait through the creation of unlikely pairings and by the way his
editing mediates their relationships. The images are transformed into
otherworldly scenes through the lens of a colored filter, for example; they
are slowed down or sped up to highlight particular moments (in the way that
the vagaries of our memory retain certain experiences); and they are made
palpable through Ang's sensitive arrangement in his very physical
installations. There is also a persistent, if varied, underlying sense of
political engagement in the works, for dreams are not disconnected from the
world they resemble. Ang's questioning of identity is more properly the
questioning of the social processes that form or twist us. These processes
include qualities external to the self: race, nationality, class, gender.
Are we truly free to invent ourselves, or are the barriers (both hidden and
manifest) too great for us to maintain this fiction?...
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From the exhibition's catalogue essay "Recess
On the work of Tiong Ang." by Marilu Knode
Senior Curator
Institute of Visual Arts (inova) at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Tiong Ang was born in Surabaya, Indonesia; he grew up in Middelburg, The
Netherlands and currently lives and works in Amsterdam. He has participated
in numerous biennials including the 2001 Venice Biennale, The Havana
Biennale, The Istanbul Biennial, the Biennial of Buenos Aires, and the
Liverpool Biennale. Museum and gallery shows include the Institute of
Visual Arts (inova), University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; Stedelijk Museum,
Amsterdam; Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; Galerie für Zeitgenossische
Kunst, Leipzig; Eastlink Gallery, Shanghai; Galerie Krinzinger, Salzburg and
Vienna; and the Lumen Travo Gallery in Amsterdam, among others.
OPENING: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, FROM 6:00 TO 8:00 P.M.
Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 11:00 to 6:00 p.m. For
further information and photographic material please contact Florence Lynch
or Charles Haywood at 924-3290.
Florence Lynch Gallery, 531-539 West 25th Street, Ground Floor. Tel.
212-924-3290