photograph of a blue and violet textile work with shadow
Anita Kwong, Of Air, Light and Water, 2022, textile installation.

 

OF AIR , LIGHT AND WATER

Shifting colours move through bands of blues and violets with a shimmer of red. The atmosphere becomes dusky as the large fabric installation lights up: iridescent silky silver-blue flows from above, mingling with a veil of lilac. Sinuous silvery plant-like forms glimmer and seem to grow within. I am suspended before this sheer curtain and some other space—moving through now—but brought back just as quickly to the material. Stitches run across it, threads dangle and tangle and the translucent fabric draws in elements of the hazy room. Between here and there.

My practice is concerned with the ways interstitial and ephemeral states are experienced in the more-than-human world. Through painting, photography and immersive installation I aim to capture the way a sensory encounter with the combined elements of air, water and light can momentarily evoke an alternate quality of being. Drawing on both my Chinese and European heritage, my work seeks new form at the intersection of these traditions.

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photograph of silky fabric in mauve and silver
Anita Kwong, Of Air Light and Water [detail], 2022.
photo of textile violet and blue
Anita Kwong, Of Air Light and Water [detail], 2022.
photo of textile installation in blue and violet with organic shadow on wall
Anita Kwong, Depth, 2022, textile installation.

 

photograph of white organic form against blue/red silk
Anita Kwong, Depth [detail], 2022, textile installation.
photograph of gold organic form and blue silk
Anita Kwong, Depth [detail], 2022, textile installation.
shadow of organic form against wall
Anita Kwong, Depth [detail], 2022, shadow of textile installation.

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