“Entanglement”
Shoufay Derz and Owen Leong
22 June → 14 July 2007

Entanglement will showcase a new collaborative video-installation by Shoufay Derz and Owen Leong. The work is informed by Garcia Lorca’s notion of duende as a dark creative force. It also draws from theories of entanglement in quantum science as a metaphor for transcending temporal boundaries. Blending dark fantasy, parallel worlds, and distant means of communication, Entanglement creates a shadow realm in which two individuals converge to engage in a deadly duel. This exhibition plays upon the idea that with any relationship, there exists an implicit separation. Entanglement is an exercise in transcending one’s own perimeters, where the ultimate aim is to form a link with an other.

Shoufay Derz and Owen Leong share an affinity of visual imagery, aesthetics and concepts. Their individual practices chart a creative topography of longing, transcendence and transformation. The exhibition merges each artist’s distinct visual languages to navigate a dark terrain of creative impulses.