THE MELTING BLACK by Carla Chan

During Gallery Weekend 2015, STUDIOLO Berlin opened its doors to the public for the first time with a site-specific installation by Carla Chan from Hong Kong. Minimal in style and form, Chan’s art works often toy with the blurred boundaries between reality and illusion, figure and abstraction. Her specially conceived new work The Melting Black is a multichannel video installation that visually explores tidal movement unfolding in space. Displayed on five video monitors, each with a slight offset of distance and scale, a seemingly coherent but erratic spatial and kinematic experience is generated. The inversion of the vertical and horizontal visual axes further enhances the ambiguity of the work. It challenges our visual customs and perceptual habits and opens up a new dimension of seeing movement and change in nature.

Words by Lukas Feireiss. Photography by Nadja Wohlleben.