Osage Gallery participates in this year’s Moving Image, New York, presenting video works by Kingsley Ng, Tintin Wulia and Chen Sai Hua Kuan.

Although Chen Sai Hua Kuan, Tintin Wulia and Kingsley Ng’s practices all include the use of digital film, the artists present three dramatically different approaches toward the medium. Tintin Wulia’s work concerns film as documentary, Chen Sai Hua Kuan’s work is explorative of ‘drawing’ and Kingsley Ng’s work speaks to the relationship between image and music. They nevertheless have in common the fact that they are pioneers who work across multiple disciplines, cross-pollinating and challenging the inherent qualities of different media. For the first time, their works are featured at Moving Image, a well-recognized platform dedicated to the development of moving images, in the widest sense.

Featured works include Kingsley Ng’s video Sun Over the Placid World, which was created for the 2nd Mongolia Land Art Biennial, and is a time-lapse recording of sunlight as it falls on a rock landscape formed by the artist. The rock landscape is aligned perfectly to the sun path and traces the contour of the Mongolian folk long song Sun Over the Placid World so that as the sunlight falls it appears to be playing the score to the song, evoking a sense of synesthesia.

Fallen by Tintin Wulia depicts a series of passports perched on individual pedestals and the domino effect as they are knocked down. Fallen is a part of the artist’s body of works on border and chance, and is based on a ‘somewhat real’ event, the skepticism behind which is accentuated by the heavy editing and dramatic music. The blurring between fact and fiction is also enhanced by the fact that the video is presented on a loop – the narrative must therefore be pieced together by the audience and is dependant on the different points at which they enter the narrative. The artist thus explores themes of perception in history in relation to identity, narrative and documentation.

Also featured is Space Drawing 07 by Chen Sai Hua Kuan, which depicts the trajectory of a taught bungee rope as it is released and ricochets through an abandoned warehouse in Limerick, Ireland, where the artist installed and filmed the spatial drawing. The piece is also being exhibited in the artist’s first solo exhibition in Hong Kong at Osage Gallery from the 1st of March to the 1st of April, 2014.

-Osage Gallery

Image: © Tintin Wulia
Courtesy of the artist and Osage Gallery