Agnes Ku, Where Time Turns Black

Where Time Turns Black

Agnes Ku

Publisher
AsiaOne Books
Year
2017
Specifications
mobile-phone photography, no post-production
Bronze Prize (Fine Art), Tokyo International Foto Awards 2017
Honorable Mention (Fine Art), International Photography Awards 2017
Honorable Mention (Book), Prix de la Photographie 2018

Memory is a multi-layered process of connection, disconnection and reconnection — (re-)connecting to and disconnecting from not only one's personal past but also family history and spatial landscape. Entering into her elderly mother's lost memory space, returning to the old district where she spent her childhood, the artist looks around the city and finds things not entirely familiar. The symptoms that result from the development of collective hysteria led her to contemplate existence and essence. Her lens gently plays over the passage of time, inadvertently leaving irreparable lacunae in the image. Blackness — a feeling of mysterious suspense — hovers between the individual and the collective, between remembering and forgetting, and between the past and the present. The project undertakes visual experimentation via the mobile phone, featuring the effects of blackness and distortion in a panoramic format.

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