Meat, ham, chocolate nourish us but they could be also the fundamental subjects to explain a mythical view of our Era. The personal and global politics of food and tourism have been a major focus of Gayle Chong Kwan´s works. She is a Scottish−Chinese Mauritian artist based in London. Her work is often specific to a context and explores histories, memory and the senses. The artist´s practice features elements of photography, video, installation and performance. Kwan´s pieces take the viewer on a journey across countries and civilizations, exploring the relationship between food, culture, and what it means to take from the earth. She has created many mythical landscape from distributing arrangements foods, like one of the most her famous photos the Tower of Babel made from sweating meat. Food enters the landscape as Chong Kwan´s metaphor for mastery, a kind of satire on those consumers of art, food, language and culture who imagined that they had digested entire worlds. She also working with plastic material as in the "Atlantis series", is an enormous mythical landscape, a city created and carved out of semi−opaque, used, plastic food packaging, collected from people who live in London. It is referred to a lost city but it´s also a critical observation of waste and climate change in our present life. Gayle Chong Kwan is now one of the most representative young artist in UK, she has the Arts Council England individual artist´s award, grant by Arts Council England, and she has set up many solo and group exhibitions, that confirmed her talent.

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6 artistes se livre(nt): Gayle Chong Kwan Marie Denis FranÇois de Gourcez Rossy de Palma Michelangelo Penso Emmanuel Régent une carte blanche à Adrien Pasternak Opening reception, September 12th, from 6 p.m. Exhibition from September 15th, until October 31st, 2009 6 European creators stemming from different artistic universes (contemporary art, literature, cinema and fashion) deliver us their respective vision through their perception of the book. Any artistic approach arouses a different point of views. The artists play with this theme evoking the book without showing it necessarily as object.... Communiqué de presse (download PDF) Présentation de l´exposition (download PDF) Argentinelee view more images "Modul´homme" The Korean artist Agertinelee works with interactive video, sound, installations and performances. She often uses video installations with special effects, avant−garde music, original sounds, and video. For her first personal exhibition at KernotArt Gallery the artist makes an inedited series of photos and drawings which go forward and developing her reflection about the interaction of human identity and all the future innovations. The exhibition Modul´Homme analyzes the relation between the human beings and the machine, through a digital transformation of the images. The process brings the observer to reflect upon new technologies, especially the artificial intelligence. All 3D animation programs are based on geometric shapes such as the cube, cylinder, sphere and cone. Argetinelee fills these primary forms with human bodies, in order to show the mankind in a virtual and hyper realistic space, that can´t represent all the infinitive variables of the human being. In this era all people are totally connected to the world by technology, which provides a strange condition of life. The mankind in this artificial situation becomes the only unusual component in the digital space. The result is a question: is there an ideal technology environment where people can live fully without any alterations of their identity? ...More ...French version Communiqué de presse (download PDF) Portfolio (download PDF) www.argentinelee.free.fr