everything is a projection, My First Solo Exhibition in Hong Kong opens now

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WMA 委託計劃 2023/24「家」──姚尚勤：逐格逐像
WMA Commission 2023/24 “Home”—Sheung Yiu: everything is a projection

2024 年WMA 將深入探究雙年度主題「家」，率先發佈全新委託項目「逐格逐像」。生於香港、現居芬蘭的姚尚勤，以攝影和數碼影像的藝術實踐，探索人對家的感官記憶。過去一年，姚氏將其桌上的81個日常物件數碼化，意圖以此作為重塑家的起點。但家的回憶真的能夠複製嗎？數碼科技複製出的無塵空間與潔淨物件，毫無細菌的侵蝕、味道的醞釀、以至時間流逝的痕跡，難以捕捉與「家」相繫的各種記憶。一系列全新的作品，呈現姚氏對影像複製技術的質疑，以及人們不由自主地尋找、重塑或複製一個「家」的衝動和渴望。

展覽由官綺雲 @yeewankoon 策展，並於1月25日下午5時舉辦一場策展人導賞。開幕典禮則於6-8時舉行。

WMA continues its exploration of the biennial theme “Home” in 2024 and presents the latest commissioned project “everything is a projection” by artist Sheung Yiu. Born in Hong Kong and currently based in Finland, Yiu explores sensory memories of home through his photographic and digital imaging practice. Over the past year, Yiu has digitised 81 objects on his table, as a starting point to reconstruct his home. But can memories of home truly be replicated? The sterile spaces and pristine objects created by digital technology strip away the erosion of bacteria, the lingering scents, and even the traces of the passage of time, making it difficult to capture the various memories associated with “home”. A series of new works presents Yiu’s questioning of replication technology, as well as one’s impulse and longing to find, recreate, or replicate a “home”.

The exhibition is curated by Yeewan Koon. On January 25, there will be a curator-led tour at 5 PM, followed by an opening ceremony from 6 to 8 PM.

📌 展覽詳情 Exhibition Details
> 2024.01.25 - 03.31
> 12nn-7pm (二至日 Tue-Sun)

'The Poetics of Science' at NOUA

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Photo by Dan Mariner

The exhibition ‘The Poetics of Science’ is a visual study of science communication. Referencing the visual language of scientific imagery and its historical significance as evidence, the project deconstructs the visuality of science communication: its production, its visual language, its poetics, and the construction of scientific authenticity through the use of photography.

The multimedia project includes photographic work, photo books, photo objects, writing, and artistic research.

Exhibition: Photobook Award 2021 at Photo North in Oulu

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Photo North – Northern Photographic Centre’s latest exhibition Photobook Award 2021 presents five finalists for the eponymous award given by the Finnish Association of Photographic Artists and The Finnish Museum of Photography. In the exhibition the audience can view, browse and read the photobooks, learn how they were made, and study the processes involved.

The winners of the Finnish Photobook Award 2021 are Elina Brotherus with her book Seabound. A Logbook and Sheung Yiu with Ground Truth. The prize is awarded annually to the author of an outstanding photobook and is worth 2000 euros. The other three finalists, awarded 500 euros each, were Laura Horelli withChanges in Direction. A Journal, Marko Hämäläinen with Hiljaisuus liikkuu tuulessa / Silence Moves with the Wind and Niko Luoma with For Each Minute – Sixty-five Seconds. “The 2021 prize was awarded to two artists at very different stages of their careers who also have quite different ways of approaching their artistic work,” says Henna Harri, director of the Finnish Association of Photographic Artists. The winners were selected by photographer and msdm founder paula roush from London. In addition to the photographs, important elements in the selection of the winner included the presentation of the story, the relationship between the text and the photographs, the haptic quality and the visual structure of the books. Roush describes the winning works as follows: “Two books about our relationship to the world – forest and sea – relying on playful, affective and experiential modes of knowing place.” For more information about the winners, please see photobookaward.fi.

Exhibition at Northern Photographic Center and Review on Kaleva

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Photo by Dan Mariner

Ground Truth, or How to Resurrect a Tree was on view at New North New Perspectives exhibition @photonorth.fi, the 35-year anniversary exhibition is curated by @atelier_noua. The new installation is designed by Atelier NOUA.

A huge thank you to the team, Darja Zaitsev and Taija Jyrkäs at the Northern Photographic Center.

(In Finnish)
Näyttelyyn Uusi Pohjoinen – Uusia Näkökulmia kutsutut valokuvataiteilijat Juuso Noronkoski, Kukka-Maria Rosenlund, Emma Sandström ja Stefano Conti, Ulla Schildt ja Sheung Yiu ovat kaikki kiinnostuneet havainnoinnista ja teknologiasta, luonnollisista tiloista ja sykleistä sekä ihmisen historiaan liittyvistä käsityksistä ja muutoksista.

Common Objects in Context opens on 4th August 2022

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Pekko Vasantola & Sheung Yiu
Common Objects in Context
5 August –28 August 2022
Opening reception Thursday 4th of August 2022,
5–7 p.m.
Hippolyte Gallery

Common Objects in Context delves into the grammar of machine vision and the shifting nature of photography in the algorithmic age. The exhibition title comes from the state-of-the-art dataset of the same name, better known as COCO, commonly used for training computer vision tasks such as object recognition. The exhibition examines the logic of object recognition—one of bounding boxes, discrete objects with clear outlines, crowdsourced labor, and distributed seeing.

COCO consists of more than 300,000 photographs scrapped from the photo-sharing site Flickr. Each image contains five captions written by cheap crowdsourced human workers. The workers are instructed to follow seven strict rules in describing the depicted scene such that the captions are clean, direct, and 'objective' for machine learning.

Describe all the important parts of the scene.
Do not start the sentences with "There is".
Do not describe unimportant details.
Do not describe things that might have happened in the future or past.
Do not describe what a person might say.
Do not give people proper names.
The sentences should contain at least 8 words.

The exhibition renders the logic of rule-based seeing into different media. The metal objects are re-shaped according to the seven rules, smoothened and polished, with captions etched onto their surfaces. Upon closer examination, the captions reveal that human vision is full of errors, assumptions, and subconscious interpretation. Others exemplify the irreducible complexity of visual understanding. Computer vision sees objects in all their shiny sheen, without the memory of the past or imagination for the future.