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Empty Gallery is pleased to present our first exhibition with Hong Kong-based filmmaker Chan Hau Chun. Chan’s quietly radical moving image practice is defined by a sense of diaristic intimacy and empathetic distance grounded in a deep regard for her city and its inhabitants—both past and future. Depicting the affective landscape of contemporary Hong Kong through a direct engagement with figures who rarely (if ever) enter into the matrix of official representation, Chan’s films bear witness to the presence of a precarious and yet defiant autonomy which might be nothing more than the continued practice of simply living. For her show at Empty, Chan will debut a new moving image work entitled《記憶座標 》which weaves together elements of landscape cinema, autobiography and guerilla reportage in a poignant exploration of time, memory, and loss after the protests.
Map of Traces, Chan’s English title, already serves to elucidate some of the thematic strands which structure her...More
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Empty Gallery is pleased to present our first exhibition with Hong Kong-based filmmaker Chan Hau Chun. Chan’s quietly radical moving image practice is defined by a sense of diaristic intimacy and empathetic distance grounded in a deep regard for her city and its inhabitants—both past and future. Depicting the affective landscape of contemporary Hong Kong through a direct engagement with figures who rarely (if ever) enter into the matrix of official representation, Chan’s films bear witness to the presence of a precarious and yet defiant autonomy which might be nothing more than the continued practice of simply living. For her show at Empty, Chan will debut a new moving image work entitled《記憶座標 》which weaves together elements of landscape cinema, autobiography and guerilla reportage in a poignant exploration of time, memory, and loss after the protests.
Map of Traces, Chan’s English title, already serves to elucidate some of the thematic strands which structure her...More
