Jin-Ya Huang: Remote

Jin-Ya Huang's photographs allow free reign over line and color to create unique compositions. “These abstract, complex, and intimate images examine memories and explorations into my childhood and growing experiences as a Taiwanese American,” explains Huang. In fact, these autobiographical works incorporate natural occurrences, modern technology, and, in some instances, elements of her own body.

With modesty, it is within abstraction that Huang finds her breath, emphasizing color before form. She leads us in a loss of reference where the only places remaining are bright spots. Her deft eye explores light and disrupts visible reality with inner vibrations.

These photographs express a sensory trail that begins with the glaring Channel Change, followed by shimmering darkness in Marfa Lights, and returns via the incandescent XX-XY. They resonate with a rhythm and sound reminiscent of early twentieth-century painting, while their abstraction paves the way for an entirely new form of representation. “I see photography as an extension of painting. I paint with my camera,” says Huang.

As she captures symbolic lines, Jin-Ya Huang gathers remote memories in order to save them from loss and overcome her past. In this way, she leads us through the hypnotic vertigo of her own childhood and her fear of oblivion.