Leung Mee Ping: Out of
place, 2005-2012, Video installation
I liked the form with which
this work presented its idea. Eight screens play simultaneously. The
handheld camera followed a single person around their city. The
figures were lone individuals -possibly homeless- trapsing,
staggering and in one case rolling on their back in streets in the
large cities of Asia; Tokyo, Mumbai, Hong Kong, Beijing etc. Central
to the composition was a video following a sacred indian cow walking
freely through busy indian streets -in
the same way as the human figures- eating from the street floors.
The form of this work had
the ability to engage your eye in a similar way to when you are out
in the street, in that the eyes can rest where ever they wish.
The inclusion of this piece
in this exhibition seems to be for the vastness which the lone
figures enhabited and navigated. To me it was a metphorical work
responding to an idea of the human condition.
Aditya Novali: Asian (Un)
real Estate Project, 2012
This wall mounted piece was
illuminated with spot lighting from within its rooms evoking a night
street scene. I got little from the content of the rooms
themselves.But I did think the idea was effective replication of a
scene.
The piece worked better for
me when stood away from and listening to the pitches of electric hum
coming from a cupboard door opposite the piece. I suspect this was
not an artistic or curatorial touch but coincedence. But this elememt
of the real life to me lended the work so much more atmosphere than
if the room were silent. The real life sound track of
elecrical buzz, as if you really were standing outside of a tower
block in the night. Wondering of the mass of lives playing out inside
the generic concrete block.
A nicely finished model staircases at either
end of the building lit by small spots
illuminating textured black gloss, breaking
up the cleanness of the models lines.
These categorising photographs by Wolf reminded me of the artists - Bernd and Hilla Bechers' series on industrial structures in 1970's US. Who were included in the 1975 exhibition New Topographics: photographs of a man altered landscape' which bought together photographers concerned with the categorisation of the man-made environment. The photographs by Wolf seem to continue on the theme laid out by the Bechers'.
