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CRASH founded on September 2024, is an artist-run alternative art space, aims to promote studio-based practice through organising artist-in-residence program, and providing accessible art space for artists and art practitioners.
The venue is supported by Marble Print Clay.
CRASH CONTACT
crashandran@gmail.com
@crash.a.space
CRASH ADDRESS
L3-03 JCCAC HONG KONG
IV Chan
@xx.ivchan.xx
AiR Period: 14SEP-10 NOV 2024
𝐂𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠
Date: 7-10 NOV 2024
Opening hours: 1400-1900
Opening Reception
Date: 7 NOV 2024 (Thu)
Time: 1900
Venue: Room 303, JCCAC, HK
🪢 Artist-guided tours will run every 30 minutes from 7pm on 7 November (Thu). 🪢
Press Release (English) (Chinese)
Editorial by Karen Wong
CRASH welcomed @xx.ivchan.xx as our first artist-in-residence from September to October. She saw the residency as a relatively safe space where she could test the tensions between restraints and desires.
Deviating from her accustomed methods, ropes and mirrors replaced threads and fabrics, and her exaggeratingly childlike soft sculptures shifted into sharp edges and shattered surfaces. She became the agent on both ends of entitling her own death drive and enforcing an impending end on the experience.
Photos by Helen
At 𝐂𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠, photos and installations serve as traces of happenings in the space, capturing moments of rupture. The residency, set at a six-week duration, evolved into a stage where @xx.ivchan.xx could condone desires and divulge repressed personas. Momentary seclusion reminded Chan of introspection and atonement, and the imagery of self-flagellation was embodied through limbs and mirrors bound by ropes. The temporality of her stay, which she saw as “a natural cycle of opening and closing, like a flower, a vulva, a wound, a memory…”, sowed the anticipation for moments of revelation.
Photos by Tianyi Zheng