ЯeaRflex  and Anna Cho- Son

2 SHOW
August 22 - SeptEMBER 13

Fur Film Vol.2: mirror, mirror

Fur Film Vol.2: mirror mirror, is a free, expanded cinema installation by Taiwanese collective ЯeaRflex 後照鏡In this work, ЯeaRflex members, Tzuan Wu, Johan Chang, and Erica Sheu, each shot two rolls of film, and sent them to each other in their respective cities — Taipei, Paris, Los Angeles — to create double exposures. Fur film vol. 2: mirror mirror is a film diary made through direct exchange. The only physical encounters made are through the lights of different cities burnt into the emulsion.

ЯeaRflex’s curated screening programs and collaborative works have been presented by independent organizations and spaces in Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, the United States, Canada, the Netherlands, and France. In 2021, the collective initiated Making Kin ((o)) !, a DIY and collective-making manifesto that remains a living document under continual revision.

ARTIST BIOS
ЯeaRflex 後照鏡 is a Taiwan-based collective formed by three experimental moving-image artists born under water signs. The group operates primarily through online exchange, while also organizing screenings and developing collaborative works. Its founding members are Tzu-An Wu, Erica Sheu, and Johan Chang.

Tzu-An Wu’s practice moves between experimental cinema and its expanded forms. Working with analog film as a site of collage, Wu brings together heterogeneous images, sounds, and texts to examine the construction of cinematic narrative and the self. He holds an MA in Media Studies from The New School, New York, and a BA in Gender and Cultural Studies from NTHU, Taiwan. His works are presented in the forms of screenings, exhibitions, and expanded cinema performances, and have been shown internationally, including BFI Flare (London), IFFR (Netherland), CROSSROADS (San Francisco), Festival des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux de Paris, Golden Horse Film Festival (Taiwan), TIDF(Taiwan), Taipei Art Awards, Taiwan Biennial, Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition, Metropolitan Museum of Manila and more. He is currently based in Taipei. (tzuanwu.net)

Erica Sheu works with photochemical film across short films, expanded cinema, and installation. Her work explores synesthetic properties of memory and engages with intergenerational passage, history and language, individuality within the collective, and Taiwanese identity politics. Her films have shown at Toronto International Film Festival, New York Film Festival, and International Film Festival Rotterdam, among others. She  had taught personal filmmaking workshops at the Academy Museum, and celluloid film workshops at Mono No Aware, T.A.P.E Los Angeles (housed at Whammy! Analog Media), CalArts among others. She holds an MFA in Film/Video from CalArts. She works and lives in Los Angeles. (sheulu.co)

Johan Chang has worked extensively with documentary film festivals and organizations, alongside a practice in documentary producing. Chang’s work explores personal memory and social relationship, expressive possibilities of image-making, hand-based processes, and diary film. Her work has been exhibited at EXiS, TIDF, Women Make Waves, M+ Hong Kong, and Image Forum Festival. Since 2020, she has co-organized the Taiwan–Japan experimental film screening series Ground Level / Rebel Cinema. Johan is a MFA candidate at Tokyo University of the Arts. She is currently based in Yokohama.

ЯeaRflex’s curated screening programs and collaborative works have been presented by independent organizations and spaces in Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, the United States, Canada, the Netherlands, and France. In 2021, the collective initiated Making Kin((o))!, a DIY and collective-making manifesto that remains a living document under continual revision. (rearflexpfilm.cargo.site)

The Other One Never Waits
ANNA CHO- SON

New drawings by Anna Cho-Son, The Other One Never Waits, documents hidden messages and revelations in the desire for and threat of intimacy between bodies.

Cho-Son’s figurative drawings mimic anatomical drawings from systematic biological experiments by the Japanese Annexation of Corea and Corean subjects. Entangled by the “colonial cut,” new drawings attempt to re-imagine and re-draw the terms of self, subjectivity, and the utterance of ‘I’. 

Anna Cho-Son is an artist and writer based in LA. Her work charts physical, psychological, and metaphysical immanence arising from shared global histories and fates. She holds a B.A. in Fine Arts and minor in Food Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles (2021) and is a graduate of the Alternative Food and Art M.A. program by The Gramounce.