Location:ACAF Art Terminal
9-11 Atchison Street
St Leonards NSW
Australia
Hours:
Entry Fee:
Free
Exhibition Event:
Official Opening21/05/2014 5:30 pm
With a new generation artist such as Chen Wei, we enter a world in which nothing is certain. Although his preferred medium is photography, Chen Wei’s scenarios are constructed like sculptures or theatre sets. These images may be disarmingly low-key but as we keep looking they reveal a broad range of possible meanings. Chen Wei’s images are open to multiple interpretations.
There is a surreal aspect to much of Chen Wei’s work, as in a picture of a pair of feet joined by tied shoe laces, or a plaster statue that has crumbled into powder. These scenarios are plausible but unlikely, filled with pathos and dark humour. They make us think that something strange has happened, or is about to happen. This sense of expectancy may be the most constant factor in a body of work that constantly plays on the viewer’s imagination, making each image seem like a still from a lost movie.
Highlights of the show are exhibited in light boxes in the Head On Popup Gallery in front of Queen Victoria Building.
This event has concluded
Dates:
Location:ACAF Art Terminal
9-11 Atchison Street
St Leonards NSW
Australia
Submit your photo series to be considered for solo or group exhibitions in Head On Photo Festival 2025.
Submissions close 11:59pm Sunday 23 March Sydney time (GMT+11)
