Date | 28.03.2026 (Sat.)
Time | 6:00pm
Venue | Auditorium, N101B, Level 1, Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre
Participating Artists | Ernest Fung, Yuan Goang-Ming, Eric Siu, Yao Qingmei, Alice Wong , Wong Winsome Dumalagan
Curated by | Stanley Ng , Doris Poon
Visual Design | Chung Wing Shan
Presented by | Videotage
(Text/Videotage)
“Rewind-Still-REC” transforms the single-channel video screen into a laboratory of temporal elasticity, where the laws of physics yield to the logic of the edit. By engaging with action-focused works, the program moves beyond the documentary function of the camera to explore visual experiences that are impossible to realize in our daily reality. Here, the recording device is not a passive witness but an active conspirator; through techniques of reversal, playback, and montage, the artists deconstruct the linear flow of existence, illustrating the “truth” of movement through manipulating the on-screen portrayal of time.
The selection traverses the spectrum from the mechanical to the metaphysical. Yuan Goang-Ming and Yao Qingmei utilize the body as a site of endurance and alienation, whether through the uncanny friction of walking backwards against the forward march of the world, or the anxious, repetitive flagging of an ideal. While scenes of the cityscape follow closely to Ernest Fung on the road, Eric Siu’s slapstick juxtaposition of pop culture shrinks the breathtaking chasing scenes in movies into pixel-sized video games. Alice Wong and Winsome Dumalagan Wong delve into the architecture of memory itself. Navigating between personal storytelling and the digital void of satellite imagery, they reconstruct civilizations from the debris of the archive, considering nuances between the seen materials and the occurred reality.
About Yuan Goang-Ming's work Pass |
I walked backward at an extremely slow pace through forests, urban districts, and tourist sites—places connected to my life and studies in Karlsruhe from 1994 to 1997. In the editing process, the entire footage was reversed and accelerated until my movement appeared as normal forward walking, while the surrounding landscape, people, and passing time simultaneously moved backward at double speed.
The primary intention of this work is not only to reflect reality, but also to invert the “taken-for-granted” assumptions embedded in these images, opening up an alternative imaginative space through the moving image. At the same time, it serves as a metaphor for my own existence—as someone who, whether in a foreign land or within the larger world, remains only a temporary passerby.
