Chen Wei
Melancholy. Loneliness. Depression. Disconnect. Society.
It looks like the images are set in a club scene. There’s a lot of people but everyone seems separated within a crowd. There is a feeling of disconnect from each other or society as if each person are in their own world. Lost in their own thoughts. How clubs naturally connect people, however this image shows a complete opposite effect. Oblivious to each other. Its the loneliest scene even though its a room full of people. Juxtaposes a lively club scene.
Harley Weir & George Rouy
Before entering this exhibition room, you go through a vault door and inside you immediately see the red interior from floor to ceiling. The vault door suggests a private room like it’s restricted only for authorised people – like the artists themselves, Harley Weir and George Rouy. It made me hesitant to enter and intimidated because the colour blood red felt uncomfortable for me. However it was inviting at the same time as I was curious to know what lies inside the red room. There was an immediate feeling of eeriness as if I was entering into the artists dark mind.
Inside there were a series of psychedelic photograms. It seems like the images are intimate as both artist experimented with people in these photograms as well as objects and liquids. You can clearly see the forms of the bodies in the image and can be freely interpreted through ones perspective. Personally, I find it to be quite sexual – the red velvet interior and the seemingly conjoined bodies. Some may see stiletto heels or a dildo. Others may see flowers and knives. Each photogram seem like a painting.