"Memento: Jayashree Chakravarty and Lam Tung Pang"
Curator: Abby Chen
Venue: Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, United States
Exhibition Period: 1 March 2021 – 6 June 2022
Lam Tung Pang’s video installation A day of two Suns (2019) is featured in duo exhibition “Memento: Jayashree Chakravarty and Lam Tung Pang” at the Asian Art Museum, curated by Abby Chen. This exhibition includes two works that speak to contemporary global issues of urbanization and political uncertainty.
A day of two Suns (2019) is an ensemble of plywood mountain sculptures and found objects staged around a large paper screen, upon which videos are projected on either side. These ever-shifting compositions of faded, seemingly still videos, which depict panoramic sights in Hong Kong, reflect Lam Tung Pang’s memories of his home. The assorted objects cast shadows that obscure these memories onscreen, evoking our scattered recollection of the disappearing past. The screen and geographical motifs reference classical Chinese landscape painting, in which Lam was trained.
Featured artwork:
Lam Tung Pang
A day of two Suns, 2019
Installation with projected video, sound, paper scrolls, plywood sculptures, and found objects
Collection of Asian Art Museum
The immersive video installation A day of two Suns (2019) by Lam Tung Pang captures a changing Hong Kong. On both sides of a suspended diaphanous paper screen, unsynchronized images from four projectors combine with shadows of museum visitors, inviting us into an emotional landscape. “This work is prophetic and nostalgic,” notes Head of Contemporary Art Abby Chen about the newly acquired work. “It documents a city, and a system, in the process of fading and awakening.”
Lam Tung Pang on A day of two Suns (2019), interviewed by Asian Art Museum
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