Gina Tsang’s two-channel video installation ‘fine heart’ explores her heritage through her recent visit to China and Hong Kong. She combines this video footage with old family photographs in order to create an exhibition that exudes a deep, meaningful approach to video making. Through her visits, funded by a travel grant she received from the Susan Cotton Family. She was able to use these visits to dig deeper into her family roots and connect further with the Chinese culture she had grew up around. I like how she discusses that although she had been raised around these Chinese traditions that on visiting China it was different than what she thought it would be describing it as ‘calming’ not being able to understand anything.
The output gallery, the exhibition space that held Gina Tsang’s work, works mainly with artists who are from or based in Merseyside. This is unlike other galleries in and around the Liverpool area that don’t fund works from lesser known artists from the Merseyside area, which is important for the Liverpool art scene. It’s not only the larger artists and galleries that make up the scene but the more intimate events and exhibitions that give way to new, local artists. Many who create engaging works that reflect their personal experiences and interesting ways of looking at art, whether this is through temporary installations, performance pieces or in Gina Tsang’s case, video work.
I liked how the room in the gallery was set up, in a way that was quite intimate and made it easier for the viewer to connect more deeply to the footage on show, with less crowding like other galleries that sometimes make it difficult to fully enjoy the work on display. I liked how through this video I was able to get an insight into Gina Tsang’s perspective on the world and the imagery that she found related to her goal for this video installation. I especially liked the footage from Hong Kong, from the ferry, as well as the way she overlaid the footage with childhood and family photographs.
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