Repeating, replaying and fast-forwarding the videos, I start to feel a sense of familiarity towards you on the screen. In this moment, are we connected, or are we strangers? It doesn’t matter who I am–it is something you will never know. Enlarging your face, lowering your voice, I pause and interrupt you, and then connect you to other landscapes, continuing to write a reality that has never existed. The details fade when the camera rolls, stripped away during editing, leaving only fragments and hints of who you are. Beep. Another you sends a short video, urging me to look at the scenery you have seen. At midday, the wind blows through the picturesque surroundings, and the beads of sweat trickling down your face leave me wondering what you have experienced. The you on the screen, you, and that other you—each exists in reality yet is also woven from fiction.

“The Pixelated You” comprises the works of five Hong Kong-based artists who explore and imagine others through imagery. These works include self-recorded footage, segments created by others, fictional plots and scripts, and the reconstruction of secondary materials. Working with video footage, images and sound, the artists use different editing techniques to trace the individuals who intrigue them. Watching the works, the audience draws on their own experiences in understanding these pixelated individuals.In the process of reading others, multiple versions of the “self” emerge–those being captured, those narrated, and those in front of the screen. 

Screening Works:

Shop Watching

Jolene Mok | 2015 | 14′ 24″ | Colour

Their Temporary Night Views and On-screen Homelands

Wong Winsome Dumalagan | 2023 – 2024 | 30′ 16″| Colour

“Turn off the light when you leave”

Lam Wing Sze | 2017 | 2′ 23″ | Colour

Death or something like that

Tsui Hou Lam | 2024 | 3′ 31″ | Colour

The First Photograph

Jess Lau | 2024 | 10′ 56″ | Colour

重複播放、回放、快轉，讓我與螢幕中的你建立出一份熟悉感。在這瞬間，我們是一見如故，還是話不投機？甚至我究竟是誰，一點也不重要，反正你永遠無法知曉。放大你的面容、壓低你的聲線，懸停於此，將你中斷後再接合至其他風景，續寫那未曾有過的故事。那些沒完沒了的細節，在攝影機啟動的一刹便已被省略，隨剪輯的過程漸次剝離，剩餘的便成為認識你的初步線索。叮咚一聲，另一個你傳來短片，告訴我要關注你曾見過的風景。那風光明媚的正午，四周被風吹拂的景物，你臉上滴落的汗珠，更讓我好奇你所經歷過的事。螢幕中的你、你，還有那個你，有事實的加持，亦不乏虛構的成份。

「像素身影」匯聚了五位本地藝術家以影像探索和想像他者的作品。這些作品有自主攝錄，也有他者創作的片段，有穿插著虛構的元素，也有客觀資料的重組。藝術家借助影像、圖像及聲音作為素材，以剪輯的手法搜索並塑造那個牽引他好奇的存在。觀眾在螢幕觀看同時，亦以自身的經驗來理解這群被像素化的人。千迴百轉，閱讀他者的過程中出現多個我——被攝的，敍述的和螢幕前的。

 

放映作品：

《店を見る》

莫頌靈 | 2015 | 14′ 24″ | 彩色

《暫時的夜景和熒幕家鄉》

黃慧心 | 2023 – 2024 | 30′ 16″ | 彩色 

《「離開時請隨手關燈。」》

林穎詩 | 2017 | 2′ 23″ | 彩色

《Death or something like that》

徐皓霖 | 2024 | 3′ 31″ | 彩色

《第一張照片》

劉清華 | 2024 | 10′ 56″ | 彩色

29.03.2025 (Sat 六) | 6:00pm – 7:10pm

Participating Artists | 參與藝術家: Jolene Mok 莫頌靈 , Wong Winsome Dumalagan 黃慧心, Lam Wing Sze 林穎詩, Tsui Hou Lam 徐皓霖, Jess Lau 劉清華

Curated by | 策劃: Doris Poon 潘韻怡

Visual Design | 視覺設計: Emma Yeung 楊舒雅

Presented by | 主辦: Videotage 錄映太奇