In Ma Haijiao's practice, the contemplation of 'memory' has always been an important theme in his works. Being said, what he focuses on is not the anchored memory or history, but the process of perceiving, imagining and reflecting on the materials of memory. Deploying materials from social and personal memory, he reconstructs the associative space for experiencing and understanding 'memory', weaving long-forgotten emotions and landscapes from 'historical memory' into his own life. Through the creation of photography, video, and other media, he explores the boundary of the dimensions, and pushes the limit of possibilities in 'memory'.
For this exhibition, Ma presents a body of new works belonging to Ma's ongoing project Mr.Quan (Ma Guoquan), a project with works in video, photography, documentary collage, and painting about the character 'Ma Guoquan' since 2016.
The three groups of photographic works (Invisible Shore, Yesterday's Paper telling Yesterday's News, In a Quiet Space) take social memory as the starting point, presenting a structure of memory in a universal sense. Meanwhile, the series of family video biographies that have been continuously developed around the character 'Ma Guoquan' since 2016, is the visual manifestation of Ma's memory structure, interweaving the artist's personal memory and family memory.
Press release courtesy Tabula Rasa Gallery.
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