Exhibition Eva Choung-Fux: SURVIVORS ON LIFE 1945 1995

Photography, Text, Soundtrack. 482 Moments, - 482 Statements

Seefeld-Kadolz (pts002/15.03.2004/08:00) 8 May, opening of the exhibition at the Kulturzentrum Esel-Muehle. The work of 500 black/white photographs and multilingual text elements was shown as from 1995 in 6 countries and 9 museums. After China in 2000, this internationally sucessful exhibition is now presented for the first time in Austria.

Eva Choung-Fux travels in 1994 through Poland, the Netherlands, Slovakia and Austria. She looks for and meets with 241 women and men willing to talk to the artist and speak about what they had witnessed in the Holocaust. On the same route she interested 241 adolescents and children for her project. She speaks, explains, asks, listens, notes down and catches an intens moment of the encounter with her camera. The artist arranges the photographs in a chronological order. Every portrait of a witness, she juxtaposes with the portrait of a 50 years younger person. In the times jump of 50 years, dialogs arise among the people who, by their free will, stepped forward from their private anonymity. The impressiveness of the black&white photographs (author's enlarging) size 55 x 50 cm, with integrated personal data and statements is enhanced by the multilingual soundtrack installation. Drawn to share knowledge of experienced suffering, the eyes of the beholder and the depicted meet in clear and intense moments.

The exhibition Survivors on Life 1945 1995 makes it evident: the artist as catalyst, as lens, bundled the entrusted facts and knew to project them. Through this tranformation Eva Choung-Fux created a context without the need of an index finger.
"... the camera is her instrument, it is accurate, fast, verifying seconds or fractions thereof. Words are added, painstackingly phrased, discussed, elaborated in time. The time-snatch is confronted with the time-stretch ..." (Dieter Ronte, Bonn)

Eva Choung-Fux, was born 1935 in Vienna. Graduated from the Academy of Applied Arts. As from 1958 to 1968 Tokyo and Seoul form the center of her family and artists life. As from 1968 to 1993 Professor at the University for Applied Arts in Vienna, she works free lance since 1958 and exhibits internationally. Her work is focused on graphic arts, painting, object art and photography. In graphic art, painting and object art the artist works in slow moves and abstract notations. In photography she beholds, burt catches in a seconds fraction reality as a metaphor of itself. The artists work forms part of public and private collections in Europe, Asia and America.

More information on the work and on the artist you will find in the ample pressrelease, attached as pdf document.

For further requests please contact the organiser and/or the artist.

Kulturzentrum Esel-Muehle
Venue: A-2062 Seefeld-Kadolz
Time: 8 May to 27 June
Opening: Saturday, 8 May, 11 am, the artist will be present.

Contact:
Kulturverein Seefeld Kadolz
Edith Hörmann
e-mail: edith.hoermann@gmx.at
tel.: 0043 (0) 676 346 3046

Aussender:	pts - single press release
Ansprechpartner:	Edith Hörmann, Eva Choung-Fux
Tel.:	0043 (0) 676 346 3046