Chu Chu Photography: Material Immaterial 2014

Chu Chu

Chu Chu has taken unimportant daily items out of their usual places and isolated them. The viewer sees them on a single plane, silent; the objects still appear three-dimensional, despite the fabricated space in which they are presented. These items do not rely on anything; they are strictly independent. They give the viewer the chance to look up with reverence at the trivial and ordinary. At this point, the object is like a body, drawing the viewer into those serious black and white tones and fabricated spatial-temporal relationships.

Chu Chu began “Material Immaterial” in 2006. “Material Immaterial. Blade” represents the first time that the artist will combine her picture of knives with calligraphy painting. The collision of photographs and calligraphy have provided Chu with a new starting point for her work. She blends learning and craftsmanship, but she has changed them in new ways. She used digital printing to create distant landscapes, which places each of the objects within the same fabricated space. These landscapes are taken using a traditional large-format camera and then she develops the silver gelatin film in a darkroom before digitization. The dignified, mysterious aura of the pictures make people more comfortable with a space they do not fully understand. The images cleverly conceal Chu Chu’s reflections on duality: visible and hidden, time and space, together and apart.

Author : Chu Chu
Publisher : Three Shadows +3 gallery
Release : 2014
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