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Owen Leong: Emotional Geometry – Opening Night
June 1, 2016 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm AEST
Come join us for a glass of champagne to celebrate the opening of Owen Leong’s latest solo exhibition ‘Emotional Geometry’.
‘Emotional Geometry’ is a new series of work extending Owen Leong’s interest in cultural transmission and the poetics of healing. Inspired by an artist residency in Shanghai, where he researched traditional Chinese medicine, acupuncture and energy meridians of the body, Leong has produced a new series of self-portraits, still-life photographs, and body cast sculptures.
Blending the languages of photography and sculpture, the artist embarks on an exploration of new ideas and materials. His signature photographic self-portraits show the body protected by different forms of armour: a veil sculpted from his mother’s medicinal herbs, a beetle-like carapace with luminous crystals, and a second skin cut from a Chinese map of the body’s meridians. These works visualise energy as a force field of protection or a place of sanctuary.
Owen Leong has just been announced as one of the 2016 winners of the MAMA National Photography Prize for his photographic work Milkteeth which was acquired as part of the prize and is also a current finalist in the 2016 Sunshine Coast Art Prize. In 2015 Owen was the winner of the Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award.
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