Films often tell a story through a series of images, attempting to construct a reality. At the end of
the film a disclaimer appears to explain that similarities to reality are coincidental, neither
intentional nor accidental. Coincidence is the word that etymologically explains these matters.
The word comes from the Latin co-incidere, which defines a situation where two entities exist or
occur at the same time and in similar or identical forms. Likewise, this is how photography works:
the document generated by the camera coincides with a similar situation or object that is held in
our minds. The gap between these two almost identical images (one documented and one
recalled from memory) generates the ambiguity of the photograph as a document.

The artists in this show operate at different levels with photography, exploiting different aspects
of the medium to play between interpretation and aestheticization, framing and abstraction,
selection and reconfiguration. In staged photography, coincidence occurs in the interaction
between constructed image and personal archive. Yet, some of the pictures in this show could
be considered as actual records, even if not seemingly so at first sight.

This exhibition invites the viewer to experience the idea of coincidence by perceiving the
overlap of image and what is beyond: collective knowledge and personal interpretation.

• 攝影
• 記錄與操作
• 如有雷同純屬巧合