Elsewhere

Title: Elsewhere
Artist(s): Ran Hwang
Opening: 27 February, 6 – 9PM
Exhibition Dates: 27 February – 31 March 2023
Location: Leila Heller Gallery, Warehouse 86/87
About: ‘Elsewhere’ is a collection of mixed media artworks on canvas which examines society’s shared displacement from reality, because of the global events, which at times feel surreal. During the pandemic, there was an enhanced collective sense of urban alienation, when windows transformed into a primary portal of connecting to the physical world outside. The large windows in Lin’s works reveal sights of urban and natural landscape, where the imagery feels familiar yet alienated. In this series of mixed media paintings, the solitary figures dressed in futuristic attires looking outside of the window is a metaphor for how the perception shifts when it becomes the primary medium of connection to the outside world. The composition of these near theatrical works is partitioned by black, bold lines, as if the viewer is looking through the window.