Wuon-Gean Ho: Flight
Share
This week sees the opening of a new show, Flight, by printmaker, animator and artist Wuon-Gean Ho.
Ho’s prints and books explore ‘the borderline between beauty and beast’, according to thehost, Material Gallery in Shropshire, and ‘the energy shifts between life and sleep, and sleep and death.’
Dancing Dresses for Shift
As well as creating prints and animations, Ho also teaches Japanese woodblock technique. Oh, and this is when she’s not working part time as a veterinary surgeon.
Mask Fire
As the show’s title suggests, much of the work is influenced by the idea of flight, such as the beautiful dancing dresses animation, entitled Shift. This is created by 40 prints, carved onto Japanese vinyl.
Shift
The eerie Costanza animation, meanwhile, is about a ghost in an Italian castle, and shows a woman’s feet and legs caught in a strange, almost shamanic dance.
Costanza 01
The Lucid Mask animation about lucid dreams is created from a series of engraved vinyl prints, making up the individual frames.
Lucid Mask
Flight runs from 5 - 26 May at Material Gallery, 131 Corve Street, Ludlow, Shropshire SY8
Dancing Dresses for Shift
Mask Crane
