Press Release

“Rewind-Still-REC” transforms the single-channel video screen into a laboratory of temporal elasticity, where the laws of physics yield to the logic of the edit. By engaging with action-focused works, the program moves beyond the documentary function of the camera to explore visual experiences that are impossible to realize in our daily reality. Here, the recording device is not a passive witness but an active conspirator; through techniques of reversal, playback, and montage, the artists deconstruct the linear flow of existence, illustrating the “truth” of movement through manipulating the on-screen portrayal of time.

The selection traverses the spectrum from the mechanical to the metaphysical. Yuan Goang-Ming and Yao Qingmei utilize the body as a site of endurance and alienation, whether through the uncanny friction of walking backwards against the forward march of the world, or the anxious, repetitive flagging of an ideal. While scenes of the cityscape follow closely to Ernest Fung on the road, Eric Siu’s slapstick juxtaposition of pop culture shrinks the breathtaking chasing scenes in movies into pixel-sized video games. Alice Wong and Winsome Dumalagan Wong delve into the architecture of memory itself. Navigating between personal storytelling and the digital void of satellite imagery, they reconstruct civilizations from the debris of the archive, considering nuances between the seen materials and the occurred reality.

Participating Artists | 參與藝術家:

Ernest Fung 馮偉、Yuan Goang-ming 袁廣鳴、Eric Siu 蕭子文、Yao Qingmei 姚清妹、Alice Wong 王雅媛、Wong Winsome Dumalagan 黃慧心

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Videotage is a leading Hong Kong–based non-profit organisation dedicated to the promotion, presentation, creation and preservation of video and media art. Founded in 1986 as an artist-run collective, it has evolved into an influential network that supports artists using moving images and digital media to address technological, social, cultural and historical questions.

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