Shadow Self – Portal to a Parallel World

Shadow Self

Shadow Self chooses five artists whose work investigates parallel worlds from a personal or even autobiographical standpoint. The ‘shadow self’ that exists in these parallel worlds is not a black shadow escaped from the ghostly world of a fantasy novel but an opening into imagination, a portal to a world populated by the spirits of human creativity. The image points the way to another dimension. What is it like to exist permanently on the internet as the 12-year-old child you once were, as happened to the artist Charmaine Poh? What happens when the ghosts of female ancestors suddenly appear in daily life, as in the work by Heesoo Kwon? These are just two of the topics explored in the exhibition Shadow Self. lves a certain degree of violence. The film Tyrant Star shown in the exhibition is full of saturated images that appear to conceal a mysterious, parallel life, one which an incision would reveal.

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