Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung "Residential Erection"

Postmasters Gallery

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Postmasters Gallery presents "Residential Erection" - an exhibition of new works by Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung.

Born in Hong Kong and now living in New York Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung creates explosive political spectacles in a form of dense, psychedelically flavored video animations, sculptures and digital collages. Today's headlines are tomorrow's history. The raw materials for Hung's work are everyday news of wars, religious conflicts, natural disasters, dirty politics, climate change, and global and local economy.

Postmasters' exhibition is devoted to 2008 US Presidential Election and its unprecedented place at the intersection of politics, popular culture and media manipulation of the political process.
At the center of "Residential Erection" is short, action-packed video animation retelling and contextualizing the election and two monumental pop-up book structures depicting the fields of Democratic and Republican candidates. The precisely researched video hits hard at the hypocrisy of political rhetoric of recent years, and the troubled State of the Union. As hilarious as it is scary, it merges internet-scavenged imagery and original animation with pop graphics to create factual or semi-fictional relationships between the familiar political figures, corporations, and mass media iconography.

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from April 05, 2008 to May 10, 2008

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