As part of the ‘Studio + Archive Project’, the exhibition ‘Artificial / State’ departs from thePara Site Archive and invites Jeff Cheng Tsz Fung and Li Hiuwa, two artists working withphotography as their primary medium, to look back on 25 years of archival material inorder to reinterpret historical memory and to explore temporality. The exhibition iscurated by Kobe Ko.

Jeff Cheng Tsz Fung rephotographs archival images using macro photography, andattempts to displace these images from their original contexts through repeatedreproduction. The new images are processed, with visible evidence of tampering, and thenrephotographed once more. Through the artist’s repeated interference with the images,their original significance is broken down and reconstructed, magnifying the distancebetween historical memory and reality.

Li Hiuwa contemplates photographic documentation through photographic mediums. Hecreates photosensitive daguerreotypes while removing the processes of imagedevelopment and fixation, leaving his photographic devices in a constant state of exposure.As the daguerreotypes are continuously exposed during the exhibition, they capture theirsurroundings including the audience themselves, while the gelatin silver simultaneouslydarkens to obscure the imaging surface. Over time, every moment exists in the liminalspace between being documented and eroded. In the artist’s experimental practice of‘documentation’, the audience’s presence and the work’s own existence form anexperience of synchronicity.

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Venue address: 22/F, Wing Wah Industrial Bldg., 677 King's Road, Quarry Bay