Max Wang
As a photographer with a background in graphic design and painting, my photography practice is versatile and covers different genres such as landscape, documentary, mise-en-scene and post-photography. My Master of Photography project presents the communication between the Human and the non-Human, created by using familiar objects in unfamiliar contexts and imaginary scenes. The style of uncanny photography was employed to demonstrate this theme.
My works in this exhibition were all created in 2020, during the various stages of lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This project, Lucid Dream, is composed of fictional CGI videos and mise-en-scene photographs taken in the real environment. It attempts to visualise a certain kind of shared consciousness that may appear in the future, where the virtual gets closer and closer to reality, and real life is gradually becoming virtual. By creating characters and virtual scenes, the project provides the viewer with a sense of strangeness about familiar environments and objects, reminding us that even in places beyond the reach of human vision things still operate according to specific laws. The setting of the black character not only reflects the human being’s inner void but also represents more meanings in the current global political context.
Untitled 1, Lucid Dream, 2020
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Untitled 2, Lucid Dream, 2020
Video
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Untitled 3, Lucid Dream, 2020
Video
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Untitled 4, Lucid Dream, 2020
Video
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Untitled 5, Lucid Dream, 2020
Digital & pigment print
800mm x 600mm
Untitled 6, Lucid Dream, 2020
Digital & pigment print
800mm x 600mm
Untitled 7, Lucid Dream, 2020
Digital & pigment print
800mm x 600mm