Cornell University

Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, 114 Central Ave, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA

http://museum.cornell.edu/exhibitions/huang-hsin-chien-inheritance
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Taiwanese artist Huang Hsin-chien’s installation combines everyday objects with real-time video and virtual stereoscopic computer-generated animation to explore memory, dreams, and what lies beneath the surface of consciousness. In a space configured to evoke an interrogation room, visitors will find a display of four objects that once belonged to Huang’s father and that trigger childhood memories of the artist’s past, resonating in the present through his own relationship with his young son. Through these rather mundane objects and seemingly innocuous experiences Huang explores the cross-generational perspective and deep emotional impact of simultaneously being both father and son.

Visitors are invited to investigate the objects and their history from the vantage point of an interrogator. When wearing 3-D glasses, one can see the objects organically evolve in surprising ways that hover between reality and the virtual, decay and rebirth, memory and imagination.

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