Ze Dong “Uneventful Duration”
MIYAKO YOSHINAGA art prospects
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MIYAKO YOSHINAGA presents Uneventful Duration, a solo exhibition by Chicago-based emerging artist Ze Dong featuring his latest video and photo works: By the Way (2015), and Events of Time II (2014), as well as a selection of his past works. This exhibition is organized by independent curator, Yinzi Yi.
Uneventful Duration questions the pre-established time frame we strictly rely on, explores time in our physical and mental dimensions, and strives to expand the experience of time in compliance with memory and imagination.
By the Way is a 22-minute single channel audio/video piece presented with a series of black and white photographs along the wall. This video is built upon the artist’s daily bus ride on the Michigan Avenue in Chicago—from home to school and back again, from north to south and back again—a meaningless transition so meagre in labor and effort that it can hardly be called a “journey.” Shot from inside a moving bus, four windows stay in the same frame, and yet the views from each window are edited to show different time, place, and direction. Dong’s treatment of the subject evokes the viewer’s own similar experience in their daily life, in which imagination and memory may find their way through the minutest cracks in reality and even start to rebel against its limitation. To express the manipulation of time to the fullest, the video and photos will be placed side by side to make a contrast between movement and the unmovable.
In the domestic space of the artist’s apartment, Events of Time II, a 12:00 two-channel audiovisual piece, shows a woman returning home, making tea, and eating fruits while watching TV in a couch. From the moment she enters the scene, the video seems to construct a storyline. But, soon multiple sequences overlap, and time is no longer measured by a single chain of her activities. The image on the screen becomes chaotic with the combination of happenings, even though they are programmed seconds. In this work, the presence of time is indicated only by motions such as the movements of the person or the traces of the things she brought along.
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Schedule
from February 11, 2016 to February 20, 2016
Opening Reception on 2016-02-11 from 18:00 to 20:00