Exhibition - Owen Leong (Opening Night: July 20 2007)

Owen Leong
July 20 - August 9, 2007

Opening Night Event | Friday July 20, 6-8pm
Preview available upon request

Owen Leong mobilizes aesthetics of race, liminal states, abjection and transformation in contemporary art. Working with video, sculpture and installation his works harness simple gestures of the performing body with materials such as milk, honey, prosthetic wounds, and sugar antlers. His video performances blur the boundaries between real and fictional selves to explore how the body is physically, socially and culturally framed. More recently, his installation works evoke love, darkness and longing. A ghost heart made of aluminium mesh casts two phantom shadows while bleeding in reverse. Installations such as this produce spatial anxieties in which time dissolves and gravity evaporates into loss and desire.

Leong has exhibited extensively in Australia and internationally. His work has been shown in London, Liverpool, Manchester, Poznan, Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Singapore and Hong Kong. In 2005 he was awarded an Australia Council New Work Grant. He recently completed a three-month artist residency at Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester. In 2008 he will be artist-in-residence at the Moya Dyring Studio, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris.

RYAN RENSHAW
Contemporary Australian and International Art

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