Listen With Your Eyes
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Listen With Your Eyes
Fifi Cheung | Sin-Mae Chung | Heesoo Kim | Rachael Garvey
27 Jan – 7 Feb 09
Opening: Tues 27th January 5.30 – 7pm
Drawing, photography and installation by new emerging talent; Listen with you eyes offers a feast for the senses as
these forward thinking artists look back at ‘viewing’.
There is a bombardment of images in today’s society, overloading the senses. This group of artists explores the simple
act of looking; reflecting on the tension between audience and subject.
Fifi Cheung’s photographic works & Sin-Mae Chung’s video installations are ambiguous & visually introverted. Using everyday objects, often overlooked, both artists employ a pseudoscientific approach to
create their mesmerising and mysterious imagery.
The original function and visual identity of the objects has been removed, leaving the viewer to construct open and
abstract associations to what they are seeing.
Heesoo Kim & Rachael Garvey employ character projection of well known iconic figures. Heesoo stages meetings with Van Gough, a
metaphor for an artistic confession. In Heesoo’s work Van Gough is not only symbolising an artistic idol but a figure
with whom she can find guidance from and confide in. Rachael Garvey’s work is about idolization, dressed as Elvis and
performing at a drag bar she fleshes out pop culture and rock ‘n’ roll fantasies, while also commenting on the
restrictions and stereotypes of gender categories.
ENDS