Pao-Leng Kung
About
Pao-Leng Kung (b.1996) is a Taiwanese artist based in Taipei and London. She completed her BFA at Taipei National University of the Arts and exchange programme at Chelsea College of Arts, UAL. Her works has been exhibited in Taiwan, Korea and United Kingdom.
The focus of the artworks is mainly on painting and pushing it further into spatial installation. Exploring pictorial and sculptural space within painting, and also painting itself through multi-discipline, such as literature, architecture and philosophy.
To interpret painting as object, in the meantime, imagine the spatial border (field) of painting: not a limited space but becoming a space on its own. Then, rigorously to question what does painting contain.
Statement
: what will it be, when art only lives in the virtual world?
: the thing we experience at the moment is the flatness of world.
: where is painting’s 'life space' ?
: where are these domestic things’ 'life space' ?
: where is my 'life space' ?
: what is the suitable social distance between my works and viewers?
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Nomad.
Drifting aimlessly from 0 to 0.
(ongoing project...)
2019-
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Medium: Airbrick grille, acrylic paint, tarpaulin, wooden frame, velcro tape, silicone, fiberglass mesh tape, sponge, PVC electrical insulation tape, mounted grinding head
Size: Dimensions variable
Life Space: Colour Chart
Keep thinking about the making process (production) of a thing, the way creating the proper space to hold or to contain, and, the usage of clever storage method to generate magical huge space in daily life.
These invisible and profound possibilities are reformed to an approach echoing painting. Corporeality and human behaviour are implicated in. For example, the applicable container allowing a hand fit in to grab things, the decent shape avoiding things to slip off, or the most useful height, angle, direction.
part a. 29x85x21cm
part b. 13.5x19x3.5cm
2020
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Medium: Stainless steel, plastic sheet, plastic, velcro tape
Size: Dimensions variable
Set Up a File
2020
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Medium: Iron wire, draught excluder foam tape, warning tape, mesh magazine file, acrylic paint, air cushion bubble bag
Size: 25x36x8cm
Passage
Interested in the dialogue and contrast between readymade object and delicate handmade craft by artist. When those objects are detached from the fully functional narrative, looking at how they will be recognised.
Through the soft touch by artist, in a way, build an entrance for audiences to encounter the works in suitable distance and the subtle spatial interrelationship has been unfolded.
2020
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Medium: Plastic, ball chain, rubber
Size: 35x31x9cm
Life Space : Photosynthesis
2020
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Medium: Scouring pad, plastic, plastic tube, metal, rubber, acrylic paint, recycled paper, floor protection pad, air cushion bubble bag, plastic socket, wall switch
Size: Dimensions variable
Motion Trail (shadow)
2020
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Medium: PVC electrical insulation tape, mounted grinding head, plastic, velcro tape, mesh fabric, wooden board, wooden frame
Size: 13.6x30x7cm
Fabrication of Lines
2019
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Medium: Stainless steel, acrylic paint, masking tape, steel wool
Size: 24x11x9cm
That Grey
2019
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Medium: Acrylic on cotton and masking tape
Size: 20.5x26x4cm
Easel Painting
2019
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Medium: Bookend, acrylic paint, plastic, lino
Size: Dimensions variable (10x12x9+2x24cm)