Catalogue > Un extrait vidéo au hasard

A woman follows a man through a man-made forest. Night falls and she narrates a tale that is at once distant yet familiar. The man she follows undergoes a transformation. Elsewhere we find a wanderer concocting a recipe and deep at night, in an empty amphitheatre a man performs with fire. Orphic Oracular, as it’s title suggests is a vision of a future that recalls the past.

Kent Chan (b. 1984) is an artist, filmmaker and curator based in Singapore and Amsterdam. His practice revolves around our encounters with art, fiction and cinema that explore the links between aesthetic experience and knowledge production. The works and practices of others often form the locus of his works, which examines the ambiguity that lies at the interstices of art (making) and daily life. His works have taken the form of film, text, situations and exhibitions. Trained as a filmmaker, filmmaking forms the basis of his work. Not merely in terms of medium, the cinematic as aesthetic and methodology underpins and informs his practice. Kent uses text and the image medium to construct narratives that investigate the inherent conflicts and issues within the subject matter that he examines. Areas of interest that his works have explored include notions of cultural identities, myths and modernity. His works has been shown internationally in both film festivals and exhibitions in Asia and Europe. He has held his solo exhibition at The Substation in Singapore. Recent group exhibitions include the 4th Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition 2014 and the Busan Biennale 2014.