Shanghai Biennale immersive installation - video & illustrated silk
Vincent Ward was the first New Zealand artist to be invited to the Shanghai Biennale. His solo exhibition, Auckland Station: Destinies Lost and Found, 2012, was a large-scale installation that transformed a cathedral on the Bund. The work combined five-channel digital video projections with eight-metre lengths of illustrated silk, suspended from the vaulted ceiling.
"Ward’s ongoing concerns with metamorphosis, falling, light, fear, memory, darkness and the transformative moment have led him to create a series of vast, physically imposing works that delve into other-worldly landscapes and transcendent states, to evocations of loss, redemption and unconscious realms."
Rhana Devenport, Former Director of Auckland Art Gallery and Art Gallery of South Australia.
Work shown was derived from the series 'Breath' and 'Falling' 2008-2012.
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