OCULA | Daata Fair: Five Artworks Highlights

Sam Gaskin, Ocula, 2021年4月16日

The third Daata Fair will show video and digital art from nine invited international galleries when it takes place online from 20 April to 9 May. Ocula editor Sam Gaskin highlights five artwork from the mix.

 

Gao Yuan at Capsule Shanghai

 

Spoons burst into blue flames and a disembodied pair of hands flaps at the wrists, flying like a bird in Gao Yuan's short film Cloud of the Unknown (2017-2019).

Born in 1986 in China's Yunnan province, Gao Yuan received her BA in Animation Arts from Beijing's Communication University of China. In Cloud of the Unknown, she uses an alluring mixture of physical painting and digital animation to tell the story of a woman so strange she fled the company of others until encountering a woman as lonely as herself. The surreal elements of the animation are evocative of the sudden discovery of new romantic terrain.

 

[...] Please click on the link below to read the full article feauring Gao Yuan at Capsule; Julius von Bismarck at alexander levy; Phung-Tien Phan at Drei; Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley at Pilar Corrias and David-Jeremiah at von ammon co.