Gallery SULTANA project for Art features Hong Kong is about two young artists of the gallery.
Jacin Giordano and Bettina Samson. Both of them are less than 35 years old.
Giordano is an american artist living in Miami and Samson is a young french artist.
The project is about the perception of light and of the visible and the non-visible, which is a recurring concern in Bettina Samsonâs and Jacin Giordanoâs work.
Thus does the work make visible what cannot be perceived by the naked eye ; and in two ways, in fact, since in order not to darken into invisibility.
Jacin Giordanoâs works are made of constructed assemblages, like puzzles they are composed of morsels of cut up materials: wool, acrylic or sequins. Thick and heavy, they accumulate layers, proposing a dense and colorful surface. At each stage a new stratum is constructed with its own story and past.
The large-format black and white photographs by Bettina Samson from the series How, by chance, Henri Becquerel discovered radioactivity were produced by exposing film for a week or two to the radiation of pitchblende, the chie fore of uranium. Here, in an experimental, improvised recreation of the circumstances of the french physicistâs accidental discovery of radioactivity in 1896, the artist, using no light source in the accepted sense of the term, reveals the invisible. Evocative both of the depictions of occult phenomena that tiggered so many fantasies back in the early days of photography, and of abstract painting , the photographs show white spots , like flashes of light, on a black ground. The two digital prints from the Nuclear Dust series are the outcome of identical experiments and suggest the same stellar landscape.
