Arts preview: Lights, camera, mirrors in Kenny Wong Chi-chuen’s “Squint”
Bernice Chan
SQUINT: KINETIC LIGHT INSTALLATION AND AUDIOVISUAL PERFORMANCE
Media artist Kenny Wong Chi-chuen is fascinated by light, particularly how it reflects on objects such as buildings and mobile phones.
"When I take the bus in the late afternoon, when the light shines on the trees, there's a kind of flickering sensation from the branches and leaves that feels natural and in the moment," he says.
His latest exhibition, "Squint", attempts to recreate and extend that moment with an installation of 50 large mirrors placed at different angles in a clean white space.
"The viewers can walk into the space and see the mirrors and, in the meantime, there is a camera tracking them. The mirrors are arranged such that they create patterns," Wong says.