{"id":5253,"date":"2018-06-11T15:12:19","date_gmt":"2018-06-11T15:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chunhuacatherinedong.com\/?p=5253"},"modified":"2018-06-11T15:14:33","modified_gmt":"2018-06-11T15:14:33","slug":"solo-exhibition-donggang-museum-of-photography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chunhuacatherinedong.com\/solo-exhibition-donggang-museum-of-photography\/","title":{"rendered":"Solo Exhibition &#8211; DongGang Museum of Photography"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\">I am very pleased announce that I will have a solo exhibition at DongGang Museum of Photography, Gangwon-do, Korea, as part of DongGang International Photo Festival. \u00a0It is my great honour to be selected as \u201c The Artist of The Year,\u201d by DongGang International Photo Festival. And my work \u201c Mother\u201d will be exhibited in the museum, June 14-Sept 21, 2018.<\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">For more info about &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/chunhuacatherinedong.com\/portfolio\/mother\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mother<\/a>\u201d<br \/>\nfor more info about\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dgphotofestival.com\" target=\"_blank\">DongGang International Photo Festival<\/a><br \/>\nfor more info about\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dgphotomuseum.com\/bbs\/content.php?co_id=eng03_1\" target=\"_blank\">DongGang Museum of Photography<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMother\u201d consists of 14 photographs and a video dedicating to my absent mother. Absence is a form of presence. Since my mother passed away, I went back to China where I was born and found 14 mothers who are my mother\u2019s close friends and relatives. I bought a pair of floral embroidered traditional Chinese shoes to\u00a0each mother as a gift, because my mother always loved the floral embroidered shoes. We took photographs together at each mother\u2019s home where the mother wears the new shoes and I wear her cloth. After taking photos with each mother, I invited all mothers to come together for a group portrait.<\/p>\n<p>This work seeks consolation and restores narrations of the past through visual expression of memories and loss, exploring relationship between life and death, human existence and universal emotions. I use re-enactment as a method of revisiting and re-imagining past to create scenarios of my mother visiting her birth place and meeting her childhood friends. Through using my own body to present my mother\u2019s present, I reunite with my mother and become her. This work reveals how the mother\/daughter relationship is experienced as a site of empowerment, and how memories cross time and space to create a new experience that not only transcends life and death, bridges past and present, but also transforms emotions and realities. \u201cMother\u201d is an embodiment of a melancholic longing for an unrecoverable past and a\u00a0memento mori: a reminder of the inexorable passage of time and the beautiful transience of human life.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am very pleased announce that I will have a solo exhibition at DongGang Museum of Photography, Gangwon-do, Korea, as part of DongGang International Photo Festival. \u00a0It is my great [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/chunhuacatherinedong.com\/solo-exhibition-donggang-museum-of-photography\/\" class=\"more-link style3-button\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[165,219,221,228,333,332,335,336,331,337,283,258,154,334],"class_list":["post-5253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-canadian-art","tag-chun-hua-catherine-dong","tag-contemporary-art","tag-contemporary-chinese-art","tag-donggang-international-photo-festival","tag-donggang-museum-of-photography","tag-gangwon-do","tag-korea","tag-love-mother","tag-miss-my-mother","tag-mother","tag-musem","tag-solo-exhibition","tag-the-artist-of-the-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chunhuacatherinedong.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5253"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chunhuacatherinedong.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chunhuacatherinedong.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chunhuacatherinedong.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chunhuacatherinedong.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5253"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/chunhuacatherinedong.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5257,"href":"https:\/\/chunhuacatherinedong.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5253\/revisions\/5257"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chunhuacatherinedong.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chunhuacatherinedong.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chunhuacatherinedong.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chunhuacatherinedong.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}