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Runscape
Installation, video – 3 channels – 4.30 minutes, stereo sound

Runscape exposes the unconscious zones of the city. The installation renders the back alleys of Hong Kong as transitional spaces in between high-rise buildings and quiet back doors. The runner plays with the invisible face of the city, freed from the codified signs of its exposed polished facades. The topography of the street is exacerbated with a multiplication of stairs, walls and in-between terraces. Another Hong Kong is revealed without the constrain of a standardized grid-based society. Here social control crashes into the mirror of infinity. Within the unlimited division of urban structures, this oblique translation generates an extremely open-ended and fluid approach where new territories can be explored. Using multi-channel videos along with a stainless steel structure and mirrored objects, we engage the sensorial impact of the performer though the grid.

Nude Descending the Escalator
Photograph, C-print on Metallic Art Paper, 66 x 80 cm