28 Aug 2019

Leo Gallery presents “Assembling Found Images”

From 25 September to 7 November 2019, Leo Gallery Hong Kong presents Assembling Found Images, a group exhibition curated by Gu Zheng, one of China’s most influential photography theorists, critics and curators, and featuring three award-winning Chinese contemporary artists; Cai Dongdong, Lei Lei and Wang Ningde. The exhibition, which explores and challenges perceptions of photography as a medium, will showcase 14 recent and new works, encompassing photo sculpture, collage and video.

 

Thematically anchored in the artistic practice of working with found objects to explore new possibilities and subvert assumed restrictions around concepts of art production, the exhibition challenges perceptions of photography as a medium. Conceptually inspired by originators Marcel Duchamp and Pablo Picasso the use of found objects has evolved into creation methods using the found image and found footage.

 

Through the reconstruction of images and the concept of ‘the image’, as well as the use of found objects, the works exhibited collectively extend the visual scope of photography. In an age of vast image and information overload the three artists in turn utilise or strip away the contexts, pressures and illusions embedded in existing images and objects to reveal new visual interpretations of the image, of history, nostalgia, collective human behaviour and identity.

 

Gu Zheng states, “By using the ‘found image’ as the basis for new creation the artists Cai Dongdon, Lei Lei and Wang Ningde subvert the concept of art production. This exhibition brings together their individual approaches to the production of art and celebrates new possibilities for the photographic image.”

 

“For over a decade Leo Gallery has supported young and established artists with the ambition of broadening the conversation surrounding contemporary art practices. Assembling Found Images provides a unique insight into the work of three important Chinese artists who are each pushing the boundaries of image creation and the medium of photography,” said Vincent Chan, Co-Founder of Leo Gallery.

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