Grand Stair Screenings:
The Gazing Lens
Free screening
Grand Stair Screenings:
The Gazing Lens
How are stories told through portraiture, and often of artists’ own bodies? In what ways do artists engage with evolving technologies of the filming apparatus to articulate self-expression?
Conceived to respond to the M+ Cinema programme, Unseen Bonds: Family Portraits, this thematic programme features six short moving image works by artists from different generations, each focusing on portraiture captured through various cameras made in their respective eras, from analogue to digital. These works not only reflect the affordances of technology but also reveal how artistic thinking and strategies are directly and obliquely influenced by technological milieus. Serving as both tools and contexts, technology plays a crucial role in our daily experiences of perception and communication, as manifested in these works.
Nouf Aljowaysir. Ana Min Wein?, 2022. Single-channel digital video (colour, sound), duration: 12 min. 29 sec. Courtesy of the artist
Luna Maurer and Roel Wouters. Emoji Is All We Have (Episode 1), 2023. Single-channel digital video (colour, sound), duration: 14 min. 41 sec.. Courtesy of the artist
Chang Chao-Tang. Face in Motion, 1976. Single-channel 16 mm film transferred to digital video (colour, sound), duration: 5 min.. M+, Hong Kong. © Chang Chao-Tang
Ming Wong. Ham&cheeseomelet, 2001. Single-channel digital video (colour, sound), duration: 9 min. 49 sec.. M+, Hong Kong. © Ming Wong and Vitamin Creative Space
Lin Ke. Like Me, 2016. Single-channel digital video (colour, sound), duration: 6 min. 12 sec.. M+, Hong Kong. Gift of Wang Bing, 2019. © Lin Ke
Nouf Aljowaysir. Ana Min Wein?, 2022. Single-channel digital video (colour, sound), duration: 12 min. 29 sec. Courtesy of the artist
Luna Maurer and Roel Wouters. Emoji Is All We Have (Episode 1), 2023. Single-channel digital video (colour, sound), duration: 14 min. 41 sec.. Courtesy of the artist
Chang Chao-Tang. Face in Motion, 1976. Single-channel 16 mm film transferred to digital video (colour, sound), duration: 5 min.. M+, Hong Kong. © Chang Chao-Tang
Ming Wong. Ham&cheeseomelet, 2001. Single-channel digital video (colour, sound), duration: 9 min. 49 sec.. M+, Hong Kong. © Ming Wong and Vitamin Creative Space
Lin Ke. Like Me, 2016. Single-channel digital video (colour, sound), duration: 6 min. 12 sec.. M+, Hong Kong. Gift of Wang Bing, 2019. © Lin Ke
Image at top of page: Cao Shu. Meet-ing, 2015. Single-channel digital video (colour, silent), duration: 10 min. 16 sec.. Courtesy of the artist
Showtimes may be subject to change.