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artist: Yim Sui Fong
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Yim Sui Fong
In the nine-channel video installation, Against Step by Yim Sui Fong, a phantasmagorical image of a male dancer appears on a large-scale video projected on a floating retro-projection screen. His cathartic sequence of movements is based on an index of the bodily behavior of random people previously recorded by the artist while observing thousands of Hong Kong citizens in public space. Some of this recorded footage, done in poor mobile video quality, is played on loop in a set of TV monitors placed below the large projection.
Yim Sui Fong
Through moving image and video installations, Yim Sui Fong’s practice is primarily focused on her interest in performativity; how an individual or collective body navigates the lines of social mobility in an increasingly controlled public sphere...