“Entanglement”
Shoufay Derz and Owen Leong
22 June → 14 July 2007
Entanglement is a new collaborative film-based installation by Shoufay Derz and Owen Leong.
The work is informed by Garcia Lorca’s notion of duende as a dark creative force. It also draws from theories of entanglement in quantum science as a metaphor for transcending temporal boundaries.
Blending dark fantasy, parallel worlds, and distant means of communication, Entanglement creates a shadow realm in which two individuals converge to engage in a deadly duel. This exhibition plays upon the idea that with any relationship, there exists an implicit separation. Entanglement is an exercise in transcending one’s own perimeters, where the ultimate aim is to form a link with an other.
Derz and Leong share an affinity of visual imagery, aesthetics and concepts. Their individual practices chart a creative topography of longing, transcendence and transformation. This work merges each artist’s distinct visual languages to navigate a dark terrain of creative impulses.
Shoufay Derz is an artist of Taiwanese and German descent working across a range of materials and processes. Spanning a conversation on belonging, alienation and the potentialities of kinship with others and the natural environment, her work reveals rituals for the end of the world so that we may collectively imagine other possibilities.
Owen Leong is an artist exploring counternarratives of queer world-making. His work navigates the body as a site of individual experience and a product of social and cultural forces. He uses personal mythologies and kink aesthetics to explore power, control, and care, to reframe and reimagine identities and intimacies. His work centres queer pleasure as an act of political agency and healing.