Opening Reception: 
Oct 18th (Mon) 6pm

Exhibition Concept:
With new developments in urbanization comes new necessity for rules and boundaries; consequently, these modern changes in our civilization makes us continually ask ourselves if what we see and hear is real or just an illusion of something past. Does what we believe in really exist? These fluidly fluctuating memories become more bizarre as time goes by. The artist uses new technology in creating video to show such complex memories in an illusionary, but tangible, wonderland.
We each have our own view of the universe, and we should never forget ourselves in our interpretation of the universe; furthermore, our universe should not be bound to only include human beings. We should enlarge our view of the universe to include everything, such as stones, trees, and animals. How we view nature as a whole is important, as we are part of it before birth and will return to it after death.
In the works of these two artists, reality and dreams are inextricably woven together, and the meaning of the modern world gradually becomes out of focus; we become involved in the video unconsciously, and experience a world where you are not you, objects are not objects, and everything is related in existence.

Hiraki Sawa - Japan

Hiraki Sawa was born in Ishikawa, Japan, in 1977. Currently, he lives and works in London.

Hiraki uses video and animation as mediums for language; he combines everyday images with dramatic ones to create a hyper, but still tangible dissociation. With the awag cockhorse, he also mixes reality with dreams, creating a modern day Alice in Wonderland. The artist also uses metaphors such as carpets to plants or the snow. The awag cockhorse repeatedly appears as representing the memory of childhood in his artwork. He dissociates time and space and melts existence with destruction. This is a commentary on the growth of humans throughout history, as well as how cities yearn to return to nature. Cities do limit us in space, but it cannot confine the human spirit. Among thousands of wonders, we follow Hiraki Sawa in wonder to a new city landscape.

Lee Lee Nam - Korea
Korean Artist Lee Lee Nam was born in Jeollanam Do, Korea, in 1969; he currently lives and works in Korea.

Lee Lee Nam creates unique video art by changing the appearance of old pictures and classical paintings by integrating them in dynamic scenes. This new appearance makes the images as vivid as life.
The green hills, transparent creeks, cloudy mountains, foggy forests, and traveling sailors on the river, which are all common figures in classical Asian landscape paintings, are all subjects in Lee Lee Nam's video paintings, accompanied by seasons passing and day night shifting. The deep symbolism of classical Asian landscape paintings is always preserved completely. The imagination is stimulated by the old painting in the dynamic scene, and makes his work less sense of heavy history. By demonstrating the east classic paintings and west oil paintings together, the artist even aims to shifting the landscapes mutually. He eliminated the gap between east and west art, so that the definition of time and space of paintings are surpassed and redefined bravely.