Alexander Ugay “Earth & Shape”
RYAN LEE
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RYAN LEE presents Alexander Ugay: Earth & Shape, a video exhibition curated by Leeza Ahmady in collaboration with Asia Contemporary Art Week. Earth & Shape is a video-collage that combines disparate architectural landscapes onto a single plane, disregarding notions of east-west and north-south to relate to a more personal, mental geography that resists shape.
Taking various shots of landscapes from different cities, including Astana, Karaganda, Almaty, Tashkent, St Petersburg, Seoul, Istanbul, and Sophia, Ugay moves his camera through different countries to capture spaces, architectural shapes, and other situations that contain layers of memory and desire. Giant, phantomlike figures appear, eerily resembling monuments of the past: ziggurats, towers, pyramids, and antique temples, to warn of history’s tendency to repeat. For Ugay, the situation is ambiguous. He considers the complexity of space and memory in relation to society as well as the links, both weak and strong, that are created through the presence and absence of such things.
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Schedule
from October 29, 2015 to November 21, 2015
Opening Reception on 2015-10-29 from 18:00 to 20:00