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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May

Melbourne: Until March 2027. Rehearsing the City presents archival photographs from Victoria’s government collections, alongside new work by contemporary street photographers.

June

Sydney: Until 7 Feb 2027. From his archive of more than 200,000 images, Close Up celebrates the historic moments and pivotal people he famously captured.

August

Melbourne: Until 15 November 2026. This exhibition will present the most comprehensive survey of the work of the eminent Hungarian-born, French photographer Brassaï yet to be seen in Australia.

Sydney: 24 August 2026 – 18 July 2027. Featuring almost 200 images and original prints personally selected by Dupain for magazine and book publishers, the exhibition reveals the extraordinary breadth of his work.

September

Melbourne: Until 19 February 2027. Spanning 55 years from 1971, Chapman’s visual journey began aboard the ‘Green Bus’ from Elsternwick to Melbourne’s city centre – chronicling the evolution of Australian life along the way.

Melbourne: Multiple exhibitions including – Bowness Photography Prize 2026 + Sarah Rhodes | The Inner Sky. Both until 8 November 2026.

October

Perth: Until 31 January 2027. The Art Gallery of Western Australia (AGWA) presents No night is long enough for us to dream twice, a major exhibition of contemporary photography and video, bringing together more than 100 works by seven living artists and one artist duo from across South West Asia, North Africa and its many diasporas.

Sydney: 10 October – 14 November 2026. Metropolis: Street Photography 1985–2025 displays over four decades of life within the modern human environment. The work transitions from the tough, film-noir streets of 1980’s New York to the time surrounding the fall of the Berlin Wall – to the modern colour saturated, hard-shadowed geometry of contemporary Australian streets.

Sydney: Until 31 October 2027. Explore five decades of extraordinary photography by one of Australia’s most important and influential photojournalists, Lorrie Graham.

November

Sydney: 6 to 29 November 2026. Head On Head On curated exhibitions at Bondi, Paddington Reservoir Gardens and various affiliated galleries for the month of November.