Come for the Instagram, stay for the art

By Chitralekha Basu | HK EDITION | Updated: 2022-09-30 14:53
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Local art and tech company ChillOhYeah has joined forces with Belgium-based studio Dirty Monitor to create a 360-degree immersive experience based on the life and works of French impressionist master painter Claude Monet. The show arrives in Hong Kong end of October. [PHOTO PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY]

The theme of repressed female sexuality resurfaces throughout the exhibition. It's there in Sip My Ocean, a two-channel video projection showing mirror images of the artist swimming underwater. The combination of super-size screens attached at right angles and use of extreme close-ups make the artist's twin images tower over the viewer who is literally pushed into a corner.

In the video installation Open My Glade, Rist's face pops up behind the bars of a clerestory window. With her mouth and nose squashed against the glass, the manic look in her eyes is enough to creep out the most seasoned noir art aficionado.

In The Apartment, splashes of vivid rainbow colors left on glass slides are somewhat revoltingly brought to life by adding blobs of saliva on which the artist draws with her fingers. These images are then blown up to cover the walls from floor to ceiling, immersing the viewer in a whirlpool of sensory overload.

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