Visual Communication Students Exhibit Experimental Image-making at London Gallery
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Exhibition Installation at Hanmi Gallery, London
Exhibition Installation at Hanmi Gallery, London
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When Nothing is Sure, Everything is Possible
When Nothing is Sure, Everything is Possible
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Regular View, Jingjing Shen, MA Visual Communication 2013
Regular View, Jingjing Shen, MA Visual Communication 2013
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Distance, Jingjing Shen, MA Visual Communication
Distance, Jingjing Shen, MA Visual Communication
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Analogue Memories, Jingjing Shen, MA Visual Communication
Analogue Memories, Jingjing Shen, MA Visual Communication
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Chinese Dream, Xiaoxue Tian, MA Visual Communication
Chinese Dream, Xiaoxue Tian, MA Visual Communication
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Mirror, Xiaoxue Tian, MA Visual Communication
Mirror, Xiaoxue Tian, MA Visual Communication
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Untitled 3, Xiaoxue Tian, MA Visual Communication
Untitled 3, Xiaoxue Tian, MA Visual Communication
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The Eye 1, Yinan Zhang, MA Visual Communication
The Eye 1, Yinan Zhang, MA Visual Communication
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Body Print, Yinan Zhang, MA Visual Communication
Body Print, Yinan Zhang, MA Visual Communication
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Burning Documentary Film Experiment-Life, Youngju Oh, MA Visual Communication
Burning Documentary Film Experiment-Life, Youngju Oh, MA Visual Communication
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The Melting Point, Youngju Oh, MA Visual Communication
The Melting Point, Youngju Oh, MA Visual Communication
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wave painting, Youngju Oh, MA Visual Communication
wave painting, Youngju Oh, MA Visual Communication
Pictured above is the work of four Royal College of Art Visual Communication students from their recent exhibition, When Nothing is Sure, Everything is Possible at London’s Hanmi Gallery.
Second-year Visual Communication students Jingjing Shen, Shadow (Xiaoxue) Tian, Youngju Oh and Yinan Zhang showed 24 pieces at the Hanmi Gallery in Fitzrovia, London last month (9–19 January) in the week before their work-in-progress show. Their work embodies a range of approaches to experimental image-making from using multiple screens to deploying mirrored objects and even natural forces – crashing waves, melting ice or fire – as creative interventions in the production process. When Nothing is Sure, Everything is Possible showcased these efforts in exploring a new visual language and meaning.
The four came together during the Dean of the School of Communication Neville Brody’s ‘Design Without’ module – a part of the Visual Communication programme, which invites students to design, but without rules and guidelines. They proposed the resulting pieces, curated from a series of weekly projects from the module, as an exhibition to the Hanmi Gallery.
Although three of the students – Jingjing Shen, Shadow (Xiaoxue) Tian and Yinan Zhang – are Chinese, and Youngju Oh is South Korean, posing as an all-Asian collective was not intentional. According to Oh, their shared commitment to the experimental image-making process has been far greater impetus for collaboration. They have relished the creativity and freedom of the Royal College of Art, and London, that has allowed them to be so expressive and experimental, she said.
Youngju added, ‘As Visual Communication students, we are at a boundary between art and design. It's the communication that is important. We don’t care so much about media – we deal with it all. It’s the topic that’s important.’
You can find press reviews of When Nothing is Sure, Everything is Possible at Eastern Art and Euchinese.co.uk.