Artist Statement
CHAN GEORGINA, River Falls
Wood log, Epoxy Resin, LED Light Strip, Reversal Film, 30 Notes Music Box
Statement, July 2020
The repeated sound portrayed by this project is actually a documentation of films. The reversal films are images of fishes from the Goldfish Street and the local Fish Market, with marked numbers of various prices. These innocent lives are being controlled, entrapped and configured under the stimulation of suppression, immobility and sabotaged freedom.
I integrated reversal films and epoxy resin opus to re-create a new river-like living state for these aquatic creatures. By documenting multiple states of these fishes with reversing films, the music box unleashes them to where they truly belong. The repeated tune triggered by the film imitates the mobility of the fishes. They are in the fallacy of swimming freely along the river-triggered by the mechanics of the music box, yet their true nature of fish is capsulated, preserved and conveyed by the films.