Remember me when the sun goes down by Cyrus Tang

Cyrus Tang’s latest exhibition is a continuation of her exploration of presence through absence. Drawing on her personal experiences of 2020, Tang seeks to find images that address our collective experience. As a master of other worlds and of transforming the everyday, Tang has created hauntingly beautiful composite digital images, each one focussing upon a single recurrent motif, that reconstruct and make permanent shifting cerebral states.

© Cyrus Tang. Melbourne City, 2020, archival pigment print, 90 x 135cm.
© Cyrus Tang. Melbourne City, 2020, archival pigment print, 90 x 135cm.

E-mail the gallery (mail@arc1gallery.com) to access the viewing room for Remember me when the sun goes down.

The video below provides an insight into how Tang produced her work for the exhibition.

© Cyrus Tang. Burwood, 2020, light box and layers of backlit clear film, 35 x 40 x 11cm.
© Cyrus Tang. Burwood, 2020, light box and layers of backlit clear film, 35 x 40 x 11cm.

About the artist

Cyrus Tang has been shortlisted for numerous prestigious prizes including the Sovereign Asian Art Prize, Hong Kong (2021); the William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize, Monash Gallery of Art (2020); and the Olive Cotton Photography Award, Tweed Regional Gallery (2019). In 2020, Tang was awarded the McClelland National Sculpture Prize.

Tang has been recognised by public institutions and exhibited as part of TarraWarra International 2017: All that is solid, curated by Victoria Lynn; Book Club, curated by Meryl Ryan, at Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery; and Fictitious Realities at The Gallery at Bayside Arts & Cultural Centre, curated by Robert Lindsay. Her works have been shown across Australia and internationally, including Finland, South Korea, Singapore, Japan, France, China and Sweden.

 

© Cyrus Tang. Power Cables, 2020, archival pigment print, 90 x 90cm.
Shortlisted for the Sovereign Asian Art Prize, 2021
© Cyrus Tang. Power Cables, 2020, archival pigment print, 90 x 90cm.
Shortlisted for the Sovereign Asian Art Prize, 2021

 

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November

Sydney: The exhibition delves into the State Library of NSW's vast collection of two million images, showcasing 400 photos – many displayed for the first time.

February

Melbourne: Jill Orr’s The Promised Land Refigured is an exhibition that reworks the original project created in 2012 with new insights that have emerged in the past eleven years.

March

Melbourne: Environmental Futures features five artists whose work addresses how the natural world is affected by climate change and encompasses photography, sculpture and installation both within the gallery spaces and around the museum grounds.

Ballarat: Nan Goldin is an American artist whose work explores subcultures, moments of intimacy, the impacts of the HIV/AIDS and opioid epidemics on her communities, and photography as a tool for social activism.

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Albury: The National Photography Prize offers a $30,000 acquisitive prize, the $5000 John and Margaret Baker Fellowship for an emerging practitioner, and further supports a number of artists through focused acquisitions.

April

Sydney: Photographers Harold David, Lyndal Irons, Ladstreet, Selina Ou, David Porter, Greg Semu, and Craig Walsh exhibit a diverse and varied snapshot of Penrith and western Sydney as it has changed and grown over the last sixty years.

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May

Ballarat: Art Gallery of Ballarat presents Lost in Palm Springs, a multidisciplinary exhibition that brings together fourteen creative minds who respond to, capture, or re-imagine the magical qualities of the landscape and the celebrated mid-century modern architecture of Palm Springs, California and across Australia.