Carla Chan

Born in 1989 in Guangdong (China)
Lives and works between Hong Kong and Berlin (Germany)

Carla Chan obtained her Bachelor of Arts Degree from the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong. She works with a variety of media including video, installation, photography and interactive media. Much like the never-ending development of new technology Chan considers media art as a medium with infinite possibilities for artistic expressions. Minimal in style and form, Chan’s works often toys with the blurred boundaries between reality and illusion, figure and abstraction. Her recent work focuses on the ambiguity in nature. Bridging natural transformation and unpredictable computer algorithms, her work is consolidated with a cohesive dynamic between form, means and content. Her works have been showcased extensively in different International exhibitions. Including Punto y Raya festival in ZKM (DE), ISEA 2016 (HK), Hek (Haus der elektronischen Künste Basel) (CH), shortlisted in The Lumen Prize and Discovery LOOP Barcelona video Art Award, 2016 and Work selected in Hong Kong Contemporary Art Awards 2012 in Hong Kong Museum of Art. Recently, she won the Sponsorship prize from Minister of Arts in SAXON STATE in Germany and is preparing her solo exhibition at Sexauer Gallery in Berlin and Den Frie Contemporary Art Center in Copenhagen.

Carla Chan writes of Black Moves, on view at KB17: “[This] is a video that creates a spatial drama and a virtual landscape that simulates the forming and de-forming of an amorphous black mass, an evocative sensorial unfolding that traverses between the boundaries of the physical and the psychological as experienced inside a dark space. The multi-layered visuals in the video are created with a set of noise-generation algorithms simulating organic formations and patterns found in nature. These noise-like organic visual crystals are my attempts in naturalizing digital imageries via the creation of a virtual landscape. BLACK MOVES springs from my long obsession and fascination with natural transformations, particularly formless shapes and their movement. The transformative power of natural substances such as water, rock, air and clouds produce infinite varying forms that seem both ordered and random at the same time. These magical transformations continuously disorient and fascinate the senses, creating a rich perceptual journey that is chartered for a mysterious unknown cosmic. This unknown cosmic can be seen as a representation of an external world as well as a mirror of the psyche from within, where the immanent and the transcendent are fused as one via the ever-changing audiovisuality.”