April 20, 2015

Shades of Red: On Translating Hong Kong


Shades of Red: On Dr. Poposki's Translating Hong Kong 
by Blues Wong, curator of the Hong Kong International Photo Festival

"Based on the Hong Kong writer, Kai-cheung Dung’s novel ‘Atlas: The Archaeology of an Imaginary City’, Dr. Poposki’s ‘Translating Hong Kong’ (2014) is a visual rhetoric of this hyper populated metropolis. Plane signage, hoardings, advertisements and sheer urbanism are depicted in a hybrid manner. Hong Kong’s fast paced and congested life is rendered in Poposki’s chaotic photographic composition and vivid usage of the suggestive reddish color. The ambiguity of these co-existed symbols reflect the identification of a contemporary consumer society under a flux of unstable socio-political current, a tug of war relationship with the sovereign Communist Party. 
The synthetic nature of the visual and technological civilization have exploited our symbolic systems, leading to Baudrillard’s third order of simulacra, and becomes the hyper-signification of the consumption signs within the public sphere. We could  find in Dr. Poposki’s ‘Translating Hong Kong’ a bombardment of signs and an implosion of meaning in the postmodern world by reducing all articulate discourse to a digital dimension in which all signs lose their original meaning and subside into his final photographic fascination. Photographic signs have become separated from their referents to such an extent that interactions with simulacra; ‘Translating Hong Kong’ in the end lead us from reality to a screen of mirrors where the Hong Kong people’s identity are lost and withered within the chiaroscuro of Poposki’s shades of red." 

April 17, 2015

Exhibition at the National Gallery


At the National Gallery of Macedonia Mala stanica on Friday, April 17th at 8 pm, the exhibition entitled "In the First Person" will present 22 Macedonian contemporary artists, including: Metodi Angelov, Jovan Balov, Atanas Botev, Gordana Vrencoska, Goranco Gjorgjievski, Velimir Zhernovski, Jana Jakimovska, Slavica Janeslieva, Robert Jankuloski, Djordje Jovanovic, Verica Kovachevska, Ljubomir Miloseski, Angel Miov, Monica Moteska, OPA, Irena Paskali, Zoran Poposki, Nada Prlja, Igor Sekovski, Alexander Spasoski, Diana Tomic Radevska and Mikica Trujkanovikj. The curator of the exhibition is Maja Cankulovska Mihajlovska.
Generational affiliation and selection of the works created in the second half of the 1990s and especially the 21st century show the different creative incentives and media as an illustration of the action in the context of the Macedonian social reality in the past almost 20 years.
The selection is based on works / authors that stimulate responses through various content components, and the focus shifts from the personal experience towards the outside world. 

April 15, 2015

Artist talk at HKBU



Visualizing memory and history: a multimedia translation of Dung Kai-cheung's Atlas
Artist talk by Zoran Poposki
Hong Kong Baptist University, English Language and Literature Department
April 15, 2015