Gradient Nations and an Synchronised Uncertainty

GRADIENT NATIONS AND A SYNCHRONISED UNCERTAINTY
GABRIEL LEUNG

2020
Interactive digital media / Digital Print On Fabric And Sound Installation

Developed for Otherworlds - as part of Singapore Art Week 2021

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DESCRIPTION

The work creates an immersive landscape of synchronised sound and subtle movements of gradient colours depicted from still images of gathered crowds from the pre-pandemic times. The once-ordinary sceneries are now becoming surreal and distant in a time of uncertainty.

The work explores the uncertainty of a body of people, a society, a nation, who lives in an uncertain time - a time that is volatile, confused, and uneasy. In some way, the work tries to translate a tension when stepping into the midst of a process, struggling between choosing sides, evoking a desire to identify with an appropriate place to stand.

Through visual and audio articulations, the installation hopes to find meaning between binary oppositions - order and chaos, individual and communal, left and right. Whether in sync or out of sync, it is also the gathering of people that allows the gradient of colours to show endless possibilities for new emergence.

ABOUT ARTIST

Gabriel Leung is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Hong Kong. He received an MFA from Glasgow School of Art, UK, and a BFA from Tyler School of Art (Temple University), USA. His practice draws attention to the conceptual and aesthetics of the ambiguity of information transmission and reception with uncertainty. Through multimedia installations, his practice isolates the poetic from tensions between the fragment and the whole, while embracing uncertainty and suspending its impact on our human conditions. Leung also works as a photographer and occasionally a part-time lecturer.