Programme
Ngo Chun Tse: Through a Glass Darkly
When
Opening Event: 5 December 6-8pm
Exhibition: 7 - 15 December 2024 12-6pm [except Dec 6, 9 and 11th]
Where
Metroland Studios, 91 Kilburn Square, NW6 6PS
(Behind Kilburn Market)
The gallery is wheelchair accessible with step-free access. There are wheelchair accessible toilets.
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An exploration of displacement, existential uncertainty, and hauntology.
This exhibition envelops audiences in layered projections and evocative soundscapes, evoking the haunting, fragmented reality of those caught between worlds. Exploring hauntology—the “ghosts” of unresolved histories and identities in diaspora.
The journey begins in a tunnel, a doorway to somewhere just beyond reach. This space captures the unsettling “in-betweenness” of exile, where origins and destinations blur, echoing the haunting presence of lost identities and histories.
Moving from the tunnel, viewers enter the core of the exhibition: a dark, soundproofed room where a three-channel video installation reinterprets scenes from Tarkovsky’s Stalker and Herzog’s Aguirre, the Wrath of God. Here, re-animated landscapes evoke themes of resilience and existential uncertainty, drawing on cinematic atmospheres to create a symbolic space of dislocation and reflection. The room’s silence amplifies each subtle sound and visual shift, conjuring the spectral weight of diaspora and an eerie sense of isolation. Through these works, Through a Glass Darkly pulls viewers into a contemplative journey through the layered, haunting landscapes of memory, resilience, and identity, inviting them to confront the echoing, fragmented realities of exile.
Through a Glass Darkly will be on show in the Metroland Studios gallery from 6 – 15 December. The exhibition will open with a preview on the 5 December, from 6-8pm.
About Ngo Chun Tse
Ngo Chun Tse is a Hong Kong-born, London-based artist. He works across the mediums of moving image, text, installation and lecture performance to address three principal subjects: historiography of decolonisation, the production of images and hauntology of diasporic experience. His recent work Séance (2023 – ongoing) is a video essay exploring the micro-histories of Asian cinema and media. In Sekaikei (2022 – ongoing), he focuses on the intersection between technology and philosophy in digital image production. He received his BA(Hons) Fine Art from Chelsea College of Arts in 2016 and an MFA Fine Art from Slade School of Fine Art, University College London in 2022.
Chun is part of Metroland Culture’s 2024 Peer-to-Peer cohort.
Peer-to-Peer artist programme
This exhibition platforms the work of one of Metroland Cultures’ Peer-to-Peer artists. Peer-to-Peer is a studio and associates programme supporting 10 artists, who are either based in or have a connection to Brent. They use the Metroland gallery to test new work, or as a site of further production. Learn more about Peer-to-Peer.
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