Several visitors — Evelyn Char, Yang Yeung and Eddie Cheung — have preserved precious impressions for Man Mei-to’s recent 3-week solo show “the Distance of Space” at Floating Projects.
Evelyn Char explores South Korea’s biggest state-own Asia Culture Center, which archives art historical documents from various countries in Asia. She discovers that this new national monumental sits right on the former site of the 10-day long Gwuangju (Kwangju) Uprising in 1980 (aka May 18 Democratic Uprising, UNESCO), or Gwangju Democratization Movement.
A deliberate dual emphasis on domestic artists and international stars, the care for documentation and criticism as regular agenda items, and growing experiments on alternative independent art-space models from within the art community… Evelyn Char notes her observation in a recent art tour to Gwangju and Seoul.
/ 查映嵐 (Evelyn CHAR) (i) 你是此生最美好的恩寵(當時我沒有發現),我或非你最愛之人, 但你的小身體,始終慷慨,可以無止境地給予,在你那裡沒有傷害,只有最深最純粹的,兩個生命體之間的交通。但這樣的恩寵被沒收了,如是我流落在這個荒野般的現世,再也沒有倚靠與憑藉,再也沒有歸去的處所。我獨自在這世上,失去恩寵的世界, 只剩下無止盡的黑暗,那是一個沒有光、沒有風、沒有水的星球,我衣不蔽體,只能在那裡承受並等待,接續而來的傷害。