Sculptures and soundscapes reflect on life's final horizon

Macao artist Joein Leong Chou In is exhibiting wax sculptures alongside sound art by Shenzhen artist Zen Lu in the “Before the Candle’s Crackle Fades” exhibition in Shenzhen. The exhibition will also be presented in Macao in December.

Curated by Pal Lok Chok and Kathine Cheong Weng Lam, the cross-city, cross-disciplinary exhibition takes humanity’s reflections on life’s ultimate horizon as its starting point. Through their audio-visual interplay, they invite visitors to confront the irreversible limits of existence and reflect on the weight of “being-toward-death.”

The artists and curators of the “Before the Candle’s Crackle Fades” exhibition.

Wax sculptures created by Macao artist Joein Leong Chou In.

From a female perspective, Leong closely observes the body, life and everyday experience. Her sculptures incorporate architectural features of Macao’s tong lau balconies. Local architecture, bodily perception and the changing material qualities of wax come together in forms that give shape to the passage of life and time.

Lu’s penetrating soundscape responds to the wax sculptures. He sees hearing as the last thread connecting consciousness with the world of life. His seven independent sound pieces come together in the exhibition space as a unified musical composition.

Through personal experience and artistic practice, the artists reflect on the self and the world, exploring the many boundaries of life, the body and time.

Joein Leong Chou In

Zen Lu

Shenzhen exhibition

Dates: Through Nov. 15

Hours: 11 a.m.-7 p.m., daily

Venue: ecooL Space, Room 119, 1/F, Building 6, Nanhai E-Cool, Xingquan 4th Road, Nanshan District

Macao exhibition

Dates: Dec. 2-20

Hours: 1:30-7 p.m., daily

Venue: Rua De S. Rogue N° 32-B, Hoi Lei Rés-do-chão A