In Ritual, the bed frame demarcates an enclosure where we shift from conscious to unconscious, from the third dimensionality of the outside world into its zero dimensionality. The ontological existence of spacelessness and timelessness when we are in the dream resembles the fetus stage. Is this ritual of rest and rise solely physical, or have we reconnected with our naked self as in the womb?
Annysa Ng - Ritual
Artwork Description
Annysa Ng
Annysa Ng was born in Hong Kong. She now lives and works in New York. She studied at Staatliche Akademie der Bildenen Künste in Germany and School of Visual Arts in New York. Utilizing the structural and metaphoric potential of materials including bra straps, silk, hair, metal locks and bed, I create assemblages that explore my interest in perception, unconscious, and the reality as perceived through various states of consciousness. Ng was awarded 2009/10 Fellowship from the Urban Artist Initiative / NYC, Osaka Governor Prize by Nippon Modern Fine Arts Association, Fellowship at National Academy Museum in NY, and Residency at Egon Schiele Art Centrum in Czech Republic. She launched her first solo show in London in 2009, and in New York in 2005. Her works have been exhibited internationally including at the SCOPE art fair in Basel, the Egon Schiele Art Centrum in Czech Republic, Asian Contemporary Art Fair in New York, Osaka Municipal Arts Museum in Japan and The 9th Chinese National Art Exhibition in Beijing. Her work was collected by Deutsche Bank, the Stuttgart City Library, and Holtzbrinck GmbH & Co.KG, Germany. In 2008, she was named one of the “Ten Talents to Watch” in London Times.
Website: www.annysang.com/Gallery Exhibitions
Rush Arts Gallery + Resource Center
December 1-10 · Manhattan
Bill Hodges Gallery
December 2 -11 · Manhattan
Art at Bay
December 3 -18 · Staten Island
Longwood Art Gallery @ Hostos
December 7-February 1 · Bronx
Like the Spice
December 8 -18 · Brooklyn
Crossing Art
December 10-31 · Queens
