A former Quinte Secondary student, who has shared his art around the world, has returned home.
Chase Cha, who has worked and lived in South Korea, Taiwan, Central America, and spent ten years in China, is showing his art in Belleville
The 41-year-old’s solo art exhibit called “This Midlife Crisis.” It is on display at the Parrott Art Gallery at Belleville Public Library until January 11.
Cha visited Quinte News and tells us one of the reasons art is significant is due to the silence surrounding it.
Audio Player“We’re used to phones and whatnot, scanning through quick videos edited, quick for our attention span. You walk into this space and the canvases are quiet. But on the canvases are many screaming faces. Some people will say it’s almost like they’re laughing hysterically. That line between screaming out of agony and laughing out of hysterics.”
Cha says he believes it is another form of human communication.
Audio Player” Let’s just says it’s definitely a platform where I can put the things that are more difficult to make sense of, the rational mind or whatever. I don’t really have a choice anymore. It comes onto that platform and it gets dealt with, flirted with.”
Cha says as he grew up and moved around the world, he noticed he changed and so did the place he lived.
He says he loves getting someone else’s interpretation of his work.
Audio Player“Visually you can do things, where you’re playing with, you’re like planting little visual mines, like little landmines around it, conceptual mines that someone can land their eyes on. If someone catches it, if you have that in your experience, in your visual repertoire, you might get that suggestion, or this symbol.”
