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'The Memory Palace: Cyrus Tang' – online exhibition

Over the past 20 years, Tang has examined sentiments of nostalgia within memory and fantasy, fascinated by the paradox of reconstructing ephemeral mental images and sensations in permanent materials. She has explored ruins and decay of houses and cities, and of human bodies, while referencing current environmental and man-made catastrophes.

Working fluidly across sculpture, photography, video and installation, the artist has a distinctive style that embraces the materiality of her media. While her photographs and video works are presented in post-production digital format, the visual effects Tang employs are analogue, often the result of labour-intensive procedures in the studio or the field.

Tang’s work documents her chosen media going through a transformation, a convergence of past and present. The result is hauntingly beautiful works that often memorialise collective experiences.

Image credit: Cyrus Tang, ‘Lacrimae Rerum - 4505.00s’, 2016, archival pigment print, 100 x 100cm, image courtesy of the artist and ARC ONE Gallery.

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  The Memory Palce Cyrus Tang exhibition catalogue 412.79 KB [PDF] 25 July 2023
Print artwork depicting an abstract view of a long street with buildings on either side. Silhouettes of a person and a bicycle are visible in the foreground.
Cyrus Tang, ‘Melbourne City’, 2020, archival pigment print, 135 x 90cm, image courtesy of the artist and ARC ONE Gallery.
Sculpture artwork comprising 16 clear squares alongside one another on a perspex and aluminium base. Each square contains a single blue and green circles. The background is white.
Cyrus Tang, ‘Sky study 6am - 9pm’, 2022, multi layered backlit, Perspex and aluminium base, 120 x 50 x 50cm, image courtesy of the artist and ARC ONE Gallery.
Field of dry grass with a piano engulfed in flames towards the right. There is a hill to the far left and a single large tree in the distance.
Cyrus Tang, still from ‘Sky Orchestra’, 2022, HD video, 19 minutes 12 seconds duration, image courtesy of the artist and ARC ONE Gallery.
Empty black cover of the Modern World Encyclopedia, standing upright on a small black frame. There is a thick row of damaged paper in the middle.
Cyrus Tang, ‘The Modern World Encyclopaedia vol 7’, cremated book ashes, book cover and steel base, 35 x 25 x 30 cm, image courtesy of the artist and ARC ONE Gallery.
Single pieces of crumpled paper and plastic floating against a black background.
Cyrus Tang, still from ‘When things start to move’, 2017, HD Video, 4 minutes 51 seconds duration, image courtesy of the artist and ARC ONE Gallery.

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