The work of Singaporean filmmaker Boo Junfeng and Hong Kong artist-videographer Linda C.H. Lai are being presented in a joing-exihibition at Pearl Lam Galleries in Singapore in an exhibition orgganized around the theme of narrative deconstruction.“The Third Script,” which runs until June 19, combines videos, three lightboxes and a site-specific installation.With “Mnemonic Archiving: A Dispersive Monument,” Lai has created what she terms an “archaeological site,” with looping footage she came across and filmed over the last 15 years appearing on old television sets housed in the installation alongside a tree made of found objects. According to her artist statement, the piece reconfigures history “as visual poetry full of presences of references to the concrete past.”In his three pieces, Junfeng hopes to create “an uncertain space that is between imagination and reality.” To do this he shows “Parting,” 2015, his film in which a man with dementia searches for his daughter, stumbling across a film set in the process. In another piece, he reconstructs part of the film being shot from unused footage from “Parting,” creating a three-channel video work “The Scene at the Train Station,” 2016, showing the celluloid film of this second video on a lightbox nearby.Together, the two artists create a show that the gallery hopes explains that “history is always multi-threaded and incomplete.”“The Third Script: Boo Junfeng & Linda C.H. Lai” runs until June 19 at Pearl Lam Galleries Singapore
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