Luna Chang

prescription glasses for future vision is an auto-theoretical examination of recovery and trauma-informed care. Through image-based processes that rely on “washing” to emulsify Polaroid photographs, Luna appropriates images from personal archives taken during turbulent periods. “Giving old prints a bath”, the systematic procedures associated with stabilising and materialising prints are co-opted as metaphors that “cleanse” difficult memories; articulating them in ways that open possibilities to reframe and regain control over how excavated images might serve as representations of past experiences.

 

These processes are translational, shifting the images through different substrates of presentation and through time. In effect, the artwork re-animates long-stagnant scenes, reinterpreting them through analogue and digital processes that activate a perpetuity in their becomingness. Luna asserts that a spotless mind is unachievable —memories shift, distort, and resurface over time. As such, the work also serves as the artist’s reflection on the effect time can have in the ever-evolving process of healing.

 

Exhibited at

Undescribed #10, Guoco Midtown, DECK

Edition 1/3 acquired.