Sunday Arts Magazine

7 Mar 2022

Time Fell Asleep – Linden New Art

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Time Fell Asleep In The Evening Rain is a solo-exhibition by Melbourne-based artist, Cyrus Tang, presenting a series of
photographic works and light boxes that explore time and memory in the context of the pandemic and Melbourne’s extended
lockdown periods. Time Fell Asleep In The Evening Rain will open Saturday 12 March to Sunday 5 June 2022 at Linden
New Art.
Drawing on her personal experiences of 2020, she has
created hauntingly beautiful composite digital images that
seek to depict the slowing down of time, the repetition of
our daily lives and the increased space afforded to us
during lockdown to observe, think and feel.
The exhibition also includes an installation work that
separates out the many photographs that make up her
images, allowing visitors to see between and through
Tang’s layers. Each image is made up of at least one
hundred overlapping photographs, taken daily during
Melbourne’s lockdown in 2020.
“COVID-19 has changed my work practice and my social life… Walking alone outside has become my new routine. I
observed the landscape and started to take photos that caught into my eyes everyday. The composite layers of imagery
are like ghostly veils, or fogs, but at that one point they converge on a detail that condenses and vibrates, as if it might
confirm a moment of real existence. It is something to hang on to so that I won’t forget this strange experience once the
pandemic is over.” said Tang.
Born in Hong Kong, Cyrus (Wai-kuen) Tang moved to Australia in 2003, and is now based in Melbourne. Tang finished her
Degree (Hons) of Fine Arts at Victoria College of the Arts, Melbourne, 2004; and her Master of Fine Arts (Research) at
Monash University, Melbourne, 2009. Tang has completed residency’s in various programmes, including Helsinki
International Artist Program 2013; The National Art Studio in South Korea 2012; and Cite International de Arts, Paris 2009.
Tang’s work has been showcased in Australia, Iceland, South Korea, Singapore, Japan, France, Canada, Sweden, and
China.
Time Fell Asleep in the Evening Rain explores the deep feelings and surfaced emotions felt during the pandemic. The
exhibition offers a visual homage to both the individual and collective slowing of time and pace as a result of lockdowns.
This exhibition is presented as part of PHOTO2022.

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