Review of the series Air Skyliners Crashes
This series has been displayed at Sa Sa Art Projects in Phnom Penh (Cambodia) with the XEM collective
Excerpt for the presentation text by curator Lyno Vuth
“In the exhibition, physical works by each of the five artists take forms extending from their presentation in the magazine. The works presented here by XEM deal with not only what separates us but also what bonds and unites us. The very same things can produce multiple complex effects. Whether the interaction between humans and technology, the tension of political borders between sovereign states, conflicts among humans, the slippage of perception of reality, they are an in-between space, an interface that results in us. [..]
In “Skyliners Crash from Saigon to Phnom Penh” by Quang Lam, the artist presents a series of anaglyph images, a stereoscopic photograph technique that duplicates one image into two superimposed ones. This offset images seen in bright red and cyan produces an illusion of movement and instability, heightening the impression of the airplanes crashing into the buildings. Next to them is a video game of a flight simulation over the city map of Phnom Penh that the artist programmed. The mission of the game is to crash into towering buildings that are continuously sprouting and turning them into green spaces. Lam’s work questions our perception and relationship with the world, reality, and technology though photography and image-making.”
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