This Bitter Earth
Tobe KAN Kiu Sin | Ailsa WONG Nga Shan
簡喬倩 | 黃雅珊

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​23.11 – 21.12.2019
Gallery EXIT
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Ooh, this, this bitter earth
Well, I found out can be, be so, be so cold
Today you're young and before you know it
Too soon, you've grown old
But while a voice within me cries
Someone, someone may answer my call
And this bitter earth, this bitter, bitter earth
May not, may not be so bitter after all

- Lyrics excerpt of “This Bitter Earth”, written by Clyde Otis, 1960

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KAN unfolds the human mind and a sense of alienation in her works, and observed by the absent spectators from afar. KAN continues the exploration of human psychoanalysis and boundaries between life and death. Her new works depict still life from observation of her surroundings - vegetation beside her studio, monastery and cemetery. While the previous series consist of sleeping figures, this time KAN focuses on still life of greeneries. As different as it may seems, both her paintings of lifeless figure and still life are shadowed by shades of green, a colour KAN finds closely related to dead, illness and healing.

簡喬倩於新作中展示了人類的潛意識及疏離感，探索人類心理及生死的界線。藝術家過往的作品多描繪寢卧的人物，而新作則將焦點轉移至靜態的植物。 從工作室窗外的樹木至寺院和墓地的植物，她都細膩地觀察其形態並放進畫裡。繪畫了無生氣的人物與靜態的植物對簡來說如出一轍，同樣是一種靜止的狀態。無論是繪物或繪人，藝術家的作品都被綠色所翳 - 是一種她認為與死亡疾病及治癒密切相連的顏色。

​Photo courtesy of Gallery EXIT  圖片由Gallery EXIT提供

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