While we use our smart phones and rely on them at the same time, we criticize how bad we have all become in doing so.

Red Elation Gallery presents the group exhibition by Oscar Chan and Bea Au, titled "Dial A Phone", which presents some recent paintings, photography and interactive art by the artists. The starting point for this exhibition is the observation that people over-rely on their smart phones and have become addicted to them, including the two artists. The artists use different art forms and languages to discover the relationship between technology and life.

Oscar Chan started from observing the habits of how people use their phones, creating a series of paintings titled "Contacts" to help visitors remember phone numbers through images. This series of paintings tries to study and reflect again on how much we rely on our phone instead of using our own brains. "How Deep is Your Love?" is another series of artworks by Oscar showing how we use texting nowadays, and how we express our most intimate feelings on our cell phones by using words in repetition.
Bea Au has produced a series of photographs titled "Emoji" to show how we are overusing "emoticons" and at the same time questioning these simplified signals, their substitute for and their merging with the complex layers of our diverse feelings.

-Red Elation Gallery

Image: © Bea Au
Courtesy of the artist and Red Elation Gallery