2003
2003

Yee I-Lann

Horizon

20 Nov - 29 Dec 2003

Horizon presented a series of haunting, strange, and panoramic photo-montages created by Yee I-Lann upon her return to Kuala Lumpur from a three-month residency at the Gunnery Visual Arts Centre in Sydney, Australia. The exhibition explored and challenged the limits of the “horizon”, an experiment in placing different referents in front of an imaginary horizon line and generating new worlds of possibility. Across a series of montages, Yee uses photography and strange perspective to distend and warp this line. “I would swing from feeling deliriously happy and free to feeling claustrophobic, lost and fearful of such space, of such unknown. And always my eye would stretch to that horizon line. … Culture and society are a flux of undifferentiated images and signs. … I would stitch fragments together, heal wounds, join the imaginary with the symbolic. … The model of the horizon would be reality and easily read. We would together tie it down, keep it still, fence it, define it, so We could have some perspective over it and The Great Unknown would become screened, indexed, put in its place and Known to all. … It would be death to the Unknown and we wouldn’t ‘fall off’. Ha! But the Horizon would win.”

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2003
2003