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When The Door Opens

When The Door Opens

Color
Sound
4:3
Single-channel Video
production year /
2008
duration /
07'51

Flow of time and spatial transformation.
A long take in the platform of an MTR (metro) station at the doors with people going in and out.
Time goes fast and slow. Space are integrated and separated, dense and loose.
The relation of time and space interact with people weaves a symphony of city life.

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about the artist /

Silas Fong (b.1985) is a contemporary artist born in Hong Kong. He furthered his studies in Academy of Media Arts Cologne from 2013­2015. He received his MFA from Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2012 and BA from Hong Kong Baptist University in 2008. His video, installation and photographic works have been invited to be presented in exhibitions and festivals including Hong Kong Museum of Art, Goethe­-Institut Hongkong, Alternative Space Loop, Seoul International New Media Festival 2011, Taipei Soka Art Center, City Gallery Wellington, ZKM, Saatchi Gallery London, Liverpool Biennial 2010, Dresden Cynetart 2013, Microwave International New Media Festival and Animamix Biennale. He received the Gold Award (Interactive Media) at the 14th Hong Kong Independent Short Film and Video Awards. He also won the Young Artist Award from Hong Kong Contemporary Art Biennial in 2009 and was named one of Asia’s leading design talents in the 2010’s by Perspective Magazine. In 2011 he was invited to participate in a residency program “Summercamp Electrified” organized by Timelab in Gent, Belgium. In the summer of 2013, he participated in an artist residency in GlogauAIR, Berlin. In the fall of 2016, he will be participating an artist residency in Hong-ti Art Center, Busan in Korea.

He currently lives and works in Hong Kong.

Through noticing and documenting overlooked detailsin everyday life, the artist tries to retain his pace and time so as to understand himself better. In such way he transforms his trivia into psychological experience. This experience reminds the audience of their own daily experience and questions certain social values in life.

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