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Sign of Consciousness
「意識的符號」
Exhibition Period: 03 April 2025 – 29th April 2025
Opening Ceremony: 03 March 2025, 4-7 P.M.
A solo exhibition of 彭慆 Clinton Pang.
以繪畫作為一種吸收內在和外在環境的方法；繪畫的動作就像在表面上增加重量，其重量變成各種線條和筆畫，形成某種語言。每一筆每一劃都是在記錄作者的意識活動, 了解自己的狀態。綜上所述，繪畫是潛意識與自我同化的結果。
自動書寫作為繪畫方式來記錄他的意識。將腦海中浮現的每個意念化為文字再把其結構分開，可以有更多的時間來理解文字本來的結構，更清楚地了解他意識的流動並形象化。
同時作品也帶出了繪畫與書寫之間的模糊關係。作者認為他的作品繪畫是因為書寫的使用似乎是視覺元素而不是可讀的文本。與書籍或其他訊息傳播不同，用筆畫營造出一種抽象的氛圍投射意識的形態，因為意識的本質是抽象的，而且充滿暫時性和不確定性。
由香港藝術發展局、艺鵠ACO及Yrellag贊助
“Imagine the canvas frame as a window. The scenery beyond it carrying what your mind projects. Thoughts gather and dissipate […] the portal in front of you both a gateway to -and a fragment of- an unknown space.”
Yrellag is delighted to present the first Hong Kong solo show of art practitioner and researcher Clinton Pang, following his residencies in Japan and Taiwan.
The artist delves into the connections between language, (un)consciousness and drawing. He is interested in pushing the limits of these notions, meeting them where they merge and revealing new ways of exploring image-making in relation to his own subconscious. Inspired by the idea of automatic writing, Pang visualises a language of his own by intuitively separating the different strokes of Chinese characters and slowly accumulating them until they emerge as both language and picture.
Pang considers his work to be a way to document his mind: the splitting of each word is a way to better visualise the flow of his psyche while also comprehending the vocabulary on a minute level. The visual ambiguity we see becomes a map of the experiences he goes through. As much as language can carry information, it can symbolise a state of mind.
This deconstruction of Chinese characters also allows him to delve into his own heritage as a Hong Konger whose mother-tongue is Cantonese, and project the way comprehension takes place in one’s subconscious.
Drawing-writing becomes a method to inspect his environment, both past and present, internal and external. He builds a picture of ambiguity that is both a fragmentation and an accumulation, a wave of characters that becomes raw material to form an image.
This exhibition is generously supported by Supported by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council, Art & Culture Outreach and Yrellag.