Abridge

Wei Leng Tay. Bus ride, Hong Kong to Zhuhai, 28/1/2019. 2021. Single channel 16:9 video, colour, stereo sound. 36 min 38 sec. Looped. Wood and diffusion filter screen.

Abridge (2018-2021) asks how the reflexive nature with which one thinks about one’s past, and how existing photographs can be reconsidered, can be brought together to complicate one’s understanding of either. How can longing, anxiety and shifting identities that come with movement through entangled geographies and shifting political realities influence one’s projection of the self and the reconstruction of images, themselves projections?

The prints are re-photographs of earlier photographs I had made in Hong Kong from 1999-2015 -- the time when I lived there.

In 2021, Abridge was exhibited University of Sydney Verge Gallery, Australia, and WMA Space, Hong Kong, curated by Olivier Krischer. On this page are a video and a few works from the project. Links to reviews, panel discussions, and features on the project can be seen here. Here is the link for the curatorial statement.

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Robert Norman "Bob" Ross(October 29, 1942 – July 4, 1995) was an American painter, art instructor, and television host.[1] He is best known as the creator and host of The Joy of Painting, a television program that appeared on PBS in the United States, Canada and Europe.

Hasui Kawase(May 18, 1883 – November 7, 1957) was a prominent Japanese painter of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and one of the chief printmakers in the shin-hanga ("new prints") movement.

Kawase worked almost exclusively on landscape and townscape prints based on sketches he made in Tokyo and during travels around Japan. However, his prints are not merely meishō (famous places) prints that are typical of earlier ukiyo-e masters such as Hiroshige and Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849). Kawase's prints feature locales that are tranquil and obscure in urbanizing Japan.

In 1923 there was a great earthquake in Japan that destroyed most of his artwork.

Alphonse Legros(8 May 1837 – 8 December 1911), painter, etcher and sculptor was born in Dijon.

As he had casually picked up the art of etching by watching a comrade in Paris working at a commercial engraving, so he began the making of medals after a walk in the British Museum, studying the masterpieces of Pisanello, and a visit to the Cabinet des Médailles in Paris. Legros, considered the traditional journey to Italy a very important part of artistic training, and in order that his students should have the benefit of such study he devoted a part of his salary to augment the income available for a travelling studentship. His later works, after he resigned his professorship in 1892, were more in the free and ardent manner of his early days—imaginative landscapes, castles in Spain, and farms in Burgundy, etchings like the series of "The Triumph of Death," and the sculptured fountains for the gardens of the Duke of Portland at Welbeck Abbey.