One of the most famous dancers of the early 1900s, Loïe Fuller created an extraordinary sensation in Paris with her manipulations of hundreds of yards of silk, swirling high above her and lit dramatically from below. Her work inspired artists such as Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Auguste Rodin, and Stéphane Mallarmé, and she embodied many of the decorative themes of Art Nouveau and emphasized the importance of light in expressing forms and movements.

The present exhibition Light & Traces places Fuller in the context of Chinese aesthetic culture and offers a compelling display of the interaction between light, ink marks and movement that includes paintings, sculpture and mixed media works.  Featuring the penetration of light onto the surface as well through the medium in translucent manner, artists place this dual element as indispensable and their interaction as the focus of their works.  This group exhibition adds significantly to today’s notion of the “Presence of Absence”, a nostalgic psychological awareness and longing for something physically lost but spiritually/emotionally lingers.    

Opening reception: September 14 (Sat), 2-6pm

Gallery address: 2/F, East 17, 17 Main Street East, Shau Kei Wan