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The Light That Burns Twice as Bright: Cristea Roberts Gallery, London, UK

Past exhibition
14 September - 5 October 2011
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Gordon Cheung, The Harbinger, 2011

The Harbinger, 2011

Taxidermy snowy owl (endangered species, pre 1947), modified antique display case, 2-way mirror, gold mirror, lights and truncated pyramid structure
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Bladerunner has been a huge influence for my work stemmed also from the inspiring stories of Philip K Dick from which the film was based on his book called ‘Do...
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Bladerunner has been a huge influence for my work stemmed also from the inspiring stories of Philip K Dick from which the film was based on his book called ‘Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep’. What does it mean to be human is a universal philosophical question and in our modern times the existential enquiries into our relationship to nature has become increasingly urgent as our civilisations have extracted wealth from nature at the expense of destroyed ecosystems that has led to increases of extreme weather and inhospitable living conditions. ‘The Harbinger’ is an imaginary totem that could be read as a cautionary tale of a world bereft of wisdom or the attempt to elevate this virtue to meditate on the relationship between human activity and nature.
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The Light That Burns Twice as Bright, Cristea Roberts Gallery, London, UK (09/14/2011 to 10/05/2011)
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