110 Sinking here, Floating there 沉沒與浮游之間

Sinking here, Floating there
Judy Kong
2023
Video installation
 2’58 
Size variable

I leave from here, arriving there, 
breathing to an unfamiliar rhythm, 
between ground and water,
water and ground.
I arrive here, leaving there,
water runs into my skin,
I am adapting to the shifting temperature.

When I began leaving home, arriving here meant leaving there. This cycle is endless. Sinking here, Floating there is a video installation that explores the inner realm of personal migration experiences, highlighting the cycle of attachment and detachment from places, family, and cultural values. The project draws inspiration from the bodily experience of walking in water, portraying a body existing in two spaces—above the water and underneath it —and the sensation of hearing sounds both in the air and underwater. The contrast between these elements serves as a metaphor for complex emotions, such as unfamiliarity and nostalgia, associated with being in between.

This artwork interlaces a poetic personal narrative, drawing from subjective perception to shape a video and sound. Through the abstraction of time-based, luminous, spatial, and textual mediums, it channels a lens of lamentation to evoke the essence of emotions and inner realms, responding to the truth of feeling with depth and empathy.

Artist Statement

Judy Kong is a multimedia artist, born in Hong Kong and based in Melbourne, Australia. She graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University (RMIT University). She works with video, installations, sound, painting, and poetry. She draws inspiration from authentic affects and bodily experience, obsessed with lightness, darkness, and color. Judy’s work is shaped by affective landscape and subjective experience, creates an inner space between poetic and conceptual that evokes feelings, emotions, and spiritual experience. 

She engages with subjects such as authenticity, self-immanence, cultural values, and psychology through an empathic lens. Her work seeks to find common ground in artistic experiences by inviting people to perceive a space and resonate affectively. Judy had her solo exhibition in Australia at First Site Gallery, Melbourne. She has also exhibited at institutions, including the Hong Kong Arts Centre and Trocadero Project Melbourne.