Postmasters is pleased to present our first exhibition with Chando Ao, a Chinese multimedia artist who splits his time between New York and Shanghai.
The exhibition with its deceptively simple title “My I’ (inspired by Douglas Hofstadter and Daniel Dennett's book The Mind's I) consists of a series of artworks that function as tools for the viewer’s sensory experiences.
Chando Ao’s works, where technology and human experience intersect, provide a variety of tools to confuse, inspire, induce, stimulate, and disturb the audience; to let them generate new feelings about their “I”; to connect irrelevant things beyond intellectual experience; to make the obvious strange and, perhaps, to make the strange obvious. Then, “I” becomes vivid.
The objects in the show – two digital drawings, two chairs, two dogs, two vessels, and three screen mirrors – are all interactive, self-reflective instruments to arrive at heightened awareness of one’s body, actions and emotions.