React 反應
The work in this room showcases two artists of Southeast and East Asian heritage reacting to the culture they have experienced here in the UK. Through media that include drawing, print and performance, these works offer an intimate and immediate exploration of the ways in which individuals – whether born or visiting, working or migrating – may be influenced by their own heritage, language, and personal history when responding to the local landscape.
Donald Shek (UK)
The Day After Good Friday
Winter 2017
9-Colour original silkscreen print on paper
50cm x 70cm
(Edition of 50)
Your Time is Up
Winter 2017
10-Colour original silkscreen print on paper
50cm x 70cm
(Edition of 50)
Someone Else's Party
Winter 2017
8-Colour original silkscreen print on paper
50cm x 70cm
(Edition of 50)
Chinatown with a bit of Soy Sauce Part II
Oct 2016
Graphite on paper
2 x 50cm x 70cm
In this series of artworks, Donald Shek superimposes recognisable London scenes with fantastical and playful imagery, mixing fantasy, reality and his own identity as a British second-generation immigrant from Hong Kong. The work, heavily inspired by postmodernism, depicts the pluralities of identity and reality and a rejection of traditional and more linear perceptions of our relationship to the environments around us.
Artist Biography
Donald Shek is an artist and a trained architect who incorporates architectural elements into his artwork and mixes a variety of mediums that include screen printing, drawing, and etching. His work questions cultural origins and the effects of urban environments on our subconscious.
Find out more about the artist here.
Tsui Kuang-Yu (Taiwan)
The Shortcut to the Systematic Life: City Spirits
2005
Single Channel Video, with sound
7:50 minutes
This video work plays with the social dynamics of urban environments in a series of actions that test and subvert the invisible norms that govern our use of public spaces. The artist uses a series of comical actions to re-discover and re-present the city from a new perspective, one that absurdly challenges our use of public spaces.
Artist Biography
Tsui Kuang-Yu’s work is inspired by psychological and evolutionary thinking around how humans and society adapt to one another. He seeks to question and redefine the way we inhabit space through different actions and experiments that ignore the accustomed norm.
Find out more about the artist here.