Interval II by Suki Chan at Chinese Arts Centre 10th Oct– 11th Dec 2008

Hong Kong born and British-based artist Suki Chan unveils her new video installation, Interval II, at Chinese Arts Centre.

Interval II explores traces of human presence within two contrasting landscapes. Light and shadows mover over a cast iron pier in northwest Engand and a rammed earth roundhouse in rural southwest China. The pier, left to fall into disrepair by its local community, has become a refuge for a community of thousands of starlings. Their mesmerizing arrival contrasts with the life of the roundhouse. Once a symbol of the collective spirit of the community that inhabited it, the roundhouse is now facing threats as its inhabitants embrace modern Chinese life and move away.

Suki Chan is an artist whose work explores issues of time, space and memory. Her installations combine light, moving image and sound to transport the viewer to a place between the real and imaginary, past and future.

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