"All that is solid becomes vapor" organized by Emily Chao (online exhibition)

"All that is solid becomes vapor" organized by Emily Chao (online exhibition)

We long to remember our dreams upon waking

Landscapes formed of memory

Objects lose their shadow; 

we become tourists of these spaces

And all that appears solid, it

It inevitably becomes vapor

 

These works gesture towards a material reality yet resist a fully solid form.

About Emily Chao

Emily Chao is an experimental filmmaker and independent curator based in the Bay Area. Her award-winning films have shown internationally and are distributed by Canyon Cinema. She is a co-programmer of Light Field, an international exhibition of moving image art on celluloid and a member of Black Hole Collective Film Lab in Oakland, CA. She is from San Jose, California and earned her MFA in Film/Video at the California Institute of the Arts.