ON SOFA #1: Migratory Paths Through the Photograph
ON SOFA #1: Migratory Paths Through the Photograph
In this sharing, Wei Leng will present different modes of narrative-making in her art practice. She will speak through three projects to discuss ways notions of migration manifest in her works. The projects will reflect different methods, times, and geographies that Wei Leng has dealt with.
• The Other Shore, a photographic and interview-based audio work, tells a story of a new generation of mainland Chinese migrants in Hong Kong.
•you think it over slowly, slowly choose…, considers statelessness through the materiality of the photograph.
•Works in Untitled (family slides 60s-70s) question how the objecthood of photographs shape the ways personal and collective memory converge, and how photographs can constitute ideas of history.
Through these examples, Wei Leng will surface the complex and entangled relationships between memory, embodiment, representation and projection, and the photographic image.
