Exploring the majesty of movement, Ota Fine Arts Singapore’s group exhibition “Motions,” opening this weekend, features seven artists from across Asia whose works intersect in a number of ways.No show about the concept of motion would be complete without the moving image, and four of the artists in the Ota exhibition present video pieces.London-based Japanese artist Hiraki Sawa uses two screens to show the same video of a woman in a black dress dancing, but the screens are a split second out of sync with each other, creating a form of Op Art as the eye is fooled into thinking it’s seeing two different videos. Korean artist Yeesookyung’s “Twin Dance,” 2012, is also about similarity. In it, two women in identical traditional costume mirror each other’s actions. Another artist interested in traditional dance is Hong Kong’s Samson Young, whose “Muted Situations #2: Lion Dance,” 2014, shows a Chinese lion dance without its accompanying music to allow us to contemplate the missing sound. The final video is a filmed performance from Chinese artist Tang Dixin, in which he does not allow himself to touch the floor, using instead a series of books to transport himself around the room in a piece that explores space through play.Rounding out “Motions” is the work of two photographers, Victor Gui from Singapore and China’s Chen Wei. The former uses a pinhole camera to take long-exposure photographs of entire journeys, reminiscent of Hiroshi Sugimoto’s long-exposure images created in cinemas. Whereas Gui’s work considers motion as an entity, Chun’s series of photographs “In the Waves,” 2013, is geared toward capturing a moment mid-motion. In these shots, the artist also explores dance, photographing the faces of drunk clubbers in a piece the gallery says “reflects the current situation of young people in China.”Finally, the exhibition features an installation from Indonesian artist Betty Susiarjo that uses glitter inside speakers to visually represent the sound of waves, for a piece that shares Samson Young’s focus on motion and sound.“Motions” runs April 2-May 14 at Ota Fine Arts Singapore.
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