The Fondation d’entreprise Hermès presents: "Resolution of Reality" a solo exhibition by Joo Choon Lin. The iconic pop tune from the 1980s was a premonition of the dawn of a technological era. While our experiences today are greatly connected to the extraordinary pace of technological advancement, it has produced a vast amount of waste in its wake. Joo Choon Lin’s “Resolution of Reality” resurrects these forgotten electronic gadgets in her latest construction of scenarios, portraying technology’s fragile life cycle.
This site-specific installation at Third Floor explores the unlikely relationship between technology and nostalgia, both fundamentally incompatible concepts by definition – technology incites change whereas nostalgia resists it. Integrating sensorial properties of technologies once familiar but now forgotten, she explores the reconciliation of these opposing realities by triggering our personal memories and feelings, reminding us of our diminishing tactile experience in a time of immense technological acceleration.
A dot matrix printer hangs from the ceiling and prints a continuous cascade of water imagery on paper with a whirring sound adding to the effect of a waterfall. “Multi-Tiered Falls”, a free standing sculpture of obsolete mechanics presents a bizarre fantasy of technology masquerading as life.
Joo tells her story in new ways with outdated methods such as stop motion animation throughout her video series. “Vapourised by Sunrise” depicts a frame by frame disintegration of crudely made Styrofoam objects made in the likeness of archaic versions of a microwave, television, dot matrix printer and camera - inviting us to consider what is left in its material reduction. At this intersection of time present and passed, Joo’s site specific installation presents a fascination with earlier machines and experiences that are lost as we move from one era to the next, dreaming up new futures. It encourages audiences to reflect and reconnect their memories that linger in the heart long after the images fade and the music stops.
