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Deimantas Narkevičius. About Films
15 September–18
November 2012
Opening: 14 May 2012, 19–21h
Artist talk: 15 May 2012, 15–16.30h
Para/Site
G/F, 4 Po Yan Street
Sheung Wan, Hong
Kong
Hours: Wednesday–Sunday 12–19h
T +852 25174620
F +852 25176850
info@para-site.org.hk
www.para-site.org.hk
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Para/Site proudly presents Deimantas Narkevičius. About
Films, the artist's first solo exhibition in Asia. One of the most
original voices of his generation, Narkevičius explores the
process and methods of reflecting both history and subjectivity in the
cinematographic language.
The exhibition introduces the artist's
work through a few moments and methods of his complex practice. Often
working with visual archives that appropriate the melancholy implied in the
representation of memory and twisting it with various filmic
references, Narkevičius creates dialectics of seeing within
memory structures. He deals with the archives' limitations, of
sometimes eluding the subjective from a given time and place, by
creating fictional archival imagery and cinematic narratives. This
fictional realm, together with personal memorabilia of found family images
or historic TV footage become the field of representation for re-visiting
life styles, desires, forms of sociability and anxieties of individuals
being caught in the long transformation of his society from the repressive
Soviet era to a global capitalist country. His stories do not intend to
produce illustrations, nor the moralist standpoints with which testimonial
cinematographic languages are usually connected, but rather dig in the
psychology of individuals and in the survival of idiosyncrasies from the
socialist age into contemporaneity.
This exhibition is
however not about films, as much as his practice is not about a
self-referential gaze on the medium itself. Deploying a temporality that
differs from the economy of the spectacle, it produces an imagery
that negotiates the weight of history in relation to biographies that
departs from the specificity of socialist Lithuania or global Lithuania,
for that matter. The audiences in Hong Kong will be familiar, for example,
not as much with the marginalization of Laimonas Siauciuvenas
in Restricted Sensation (2012) for his sexuality, but rather
with the institutionalized language of an oppressive and conformist
bureaucracy, and with a lack of humane relationships, either in the
character's work place or in the interrogation room. About
Films is curated by Cosmin Costinas.
For further
information, please contact Para/Site.
Para/Site Art Space is financially supported by Springboard Grant under
the Arts Capacity Development Funding Scheme of the Government of the Hong
Kong Special Administrative Region.
The content of this programme does
not reflect the views of the Government of the Hong Kong Special
Administrative Region.
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