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The Hong Kong Plague of 1894 - (Ab)Normal (2014)- Overview
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The Hong Kong Plague of 1894 - (Ab)Normal (2014)
Curator: Amy ChanParticipating Artists: Amy Chan, Enoch Cheung, FangöneiVenue: The Conservancy Association Centre for Heritage (CACHe), Hong Kong -
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Overview of installation
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Patient #HN00140529
167 x 100 x 70 cm. Acrylic light box, X-ray films, glass slides, transparency, wood chair, MP3 player and headphone.
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Operating Theatre #0
167 x 84 x 53 cm. LED light, surgical tools, surgical cloth and iron frame.
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Close up of Operating Theatre #0
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Close up of Operating Theatre #0
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Close up of Operating Theatre #0
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Curatorial Statement
‘The solidity, the obscurity, the density of things closed in upon themselves, have powers of truth that they owe not to light, but to the slowness of the gaze that passes over them, around them, and gradually into them, bring-ing them nothing more than its own light.’M. Foucault, The Birth of the Clinic.Everything is about light, and more than that, about the act of gazing.The gaze turns the bodies, diseases and tissues into the scenarios on stage; into an uncivilized territory to be explored, to be made adventures in and to be opened up; into an unattainable outer space to be conquered.The gaze, via scalpel, radiation, images, and photos; from outside to inside, from organs to cells, to genes; divides the bodies into different shapes and parts, sizes and meanings under various context, system, knowledge and professional discourses.The gaze distinguishes the normal and the abnormal. It allows professionals and even layman to spot the parts to be reserved and the parts to be spurned, as though everyone can judge, determine and decide the life and death and assess who is a normal with their eyes.Yet, is this everything about you and me?
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