This exhibition focuses on three contemporary video artists—Robert Cahen, Alice Kok, and Catherine Cheong. Through their distinct visual languages, they explore the intricate relationships between image and time, memory and consciousness. 

As a pioneer of video art, Robert Cahen uses poetic temporal structures and sensory experimentation to blur the boundaries between reality and illusion, guiding viewers into a meditative, imaginative realm. Alice Kok employs artificial intelligence as a creative tool, crafting dreamlike visual narratives that delve into the subconscious and reveal the subtle interplay between technology and human awareness. Catherine Cheong draws from personal memory and life experiences, using printmaking and video installation to compose poetic fragments of existence, recollection, and identity. 

We invite you to embark on this journey through moving images—where light and shadow converge—experiencing the power of art while contemplating the profound dialogues between humanity, technology, and existence.

Video Art Masterclass 

Instructor: Robert Cahen 

Assistant Instructure: Alice Kok 

Date: 18.05.2025 10 am - 6 pm 

Venue : The Parisian Macao

Shoppes at Parisian, Level 3, Estrada do Istmo, Lote 3, Cotai Strip, Macao SAR, P.R. China

Robert Cahen

Since 1972, he produced a distinguished body of work for cinema and Museum . In Cahen's uniquely nuanced world, fiction and documentation alike are presented as metaphoric voyages of the imaginary, exquisite reveries that describe passages of time, place, memory and perception. His videotapes have been broadcast and exhibited internationally, at institutions and festivals including the Paris Biennale, France; The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), NY, USA; American Film Institute National Video Festival, Los Angeles, USA; World Wide Video Festival, The Hague, the Netherlands; International Center of Photography, NY; Documenta 7, Kassel, Germany; FestRio, Brazil; Tokyo Festival, Japan. In 1992, he won the prize of the Villa Medicis Hors les Murs and in 1995, he created a permanent video installation for EURALILLE Public Space (Lille) in France. A complete retrospective of his films and his video works took place at the Jeu de Paume in Paris. His works were also shown at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Strasbourg (France), Mouzakis - Butterfly factory (Greece), Psychiatric Hospital of Attica “Dafni” (Greece),  Museum of Art Macau (China), Musée du Temps Besançon (France), Palais de Glace (Argentina), Tongyeong International Music Festival (S. Korea), and La Virreina (Spain). 

Alice Kok

Alice Kok (b. 1978, Macau) earned a National Master Degree of Fine Arts from Ecole Supérieure des Beaux Arts de Toulouse in 2004 and was granted "La Bourse Individuelle à la Creation" in 2005 in Paris, which facilitated the creation of her video work "Karabic OK" in 2006. Alice's artistic exploration took her to India and Tibet in 2007, where she completed the project "Family Script." The film gained recognition as one of the "Ten Finalists for Asian Award" at the Hong Kong Independent Film and Video Award in 2009 and was showcased at the Cultural Centre of Hong Kong. Additionally, it was selected for the Gwangju Biennale in Korea in 2010. In 2011, her work "Passing - Green Island" represented Macau at the 54th Venice Biennale of Art in Italy. With a career spanning over 19 years, she works as an artist, curator, senior writer, visiting lecturer, president of the Macau Art For All Society and executive director of Macau Literary Festival. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Global Studies, focusing on relational art and social integration in the Greater Bay Area Cities. Her curatorial project “Synchronicity - Topology of Mind” was selected for the Art Macao - Macau International Art Biennial 2023.

Catherine Cheong

Cheong majored in video installation with a Bachelor in Visual Arts from the École Supérieure d'Art et de Design Toulon and studied in personal creation and the theory of contemporary printmaking with a Master of Visual Arts at the University of Paris VIII. Besides, she also practiced intaglio at the workshop of the Macau Art Museum with the master James Wong and combined it with modern digital printing to produce intaglio prints with hand-drawn black line outlines and colourful digital images. Using this technique, her work "Macau People" won the Gold Medal in the International Print Competition of the 2nd Macau Print Triennial. 

As an individual artist, her inspiration comes from personal experience. Through the cultural differences, contradictions, and interactions between human beings, social environment and nature, to explore the realization of life and feelings of the soul. She reassembles, juxtaposes, and duplicates symbolic images to recreate new meanings, searching for the coincidence between images with different artistic languages and media to express personal feelings, thoughts, and desires.

Her artworks were presented in France, Germany, Japan, the United States, Japan, South Korea, Thailand, Beijing, Taiwan, Macau, and beyond. 

She lives and works in Paris and Macau. 

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