Robert Cahen is a seminal figure in the European art realm and is firmly positioned and widely regarded as one of the most important personalities in the field of experimental video.

In Cahen's uniquely nuanced world, fiction and document alike are presented as metaphoric voyages of the imaginary, exquisite reveries that describe passages of time, place, memory and perception.
His research has been haunted by the notion of passing: passing from fixed image to moving image, passing from a place – and a time – to another, transformation of filmed reality and eye, exploration of sound related to the image. His approach is part of an always-renewed dialogue between visible and invisible, narration and poetry, distance and presence, confronting another world, a world made different – beautiful, disturbing – by metamorphoses of time and space.

The Sight of Time* exhibits major works of the artist, integrating these images to an installation device and introducing the visitor in the heart of imaginary landscapes.

Graduating from the Conservatoire National Superieur Musique de Paris, Cahen was a member of the Groupe de Recherche Musicales de l'ORFT (the Office of French Radio and Television) from 1971 to 1974.  From 1973 to 1976, he was director of Experimental Video for ORTF/INA. In 1972 he began producing a major body of work (films, videotapes, installations) that combined experimentation in sound with exploration of contemporary visual arts, photography and dance. A true pioneer, Cahen has forged new ways of depicting landscape, city-scape, and theatrical performance, all the while significantly reinvigorating genres like the travel diary and documentary.

Through his playful manipulation of sound and image, space and time, Cahen stresses the fertile encounter between new technology and a creative sensibility, as well as raising theoretical issues related to independent film and video art.
He has exhibited internationally at the Paris Biennale; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; American Film Institute National Video Festival, Los Angeles; World Wide Festival, The Hague; the International Center of Photography, New York; Documenta 8, Kassel; and The Tokyo Festival. Cahen lives and works in Mulhouse, France.

Robert Cahen 是實驗錄像創作領域中最著名的藝術家之一。

Robert Cahen 歐洲藝壇的種子人物，在實驗影片界已奠定了鞏固的地位，並被視為是舉足輕重的人物。

Cahen對世界、幻想和事實有其獨特的觀點，並善於以抽象的隱喻和不可思議的幻想曲表達時間、地方、記憶和意識的流徙。
他的實驗作品的理念在於轉移：固定影像轉移到移動影像、地方和時間不斷轉移、攝錄現實的變換以至聲音與影像的探索。他的手法是透過時間和空間的變化，表現出有形和無形、敍事和詩趣、遠和近這些互相對立，又各有不同，同時造就美好和混亂的世界之間時刻在變的對話。

《時間觀》展覽將Cahen一些主要的作品配合展示裝置展出，誠邀觀眾深入幻想的領域。

Cahen 畢業於巴黎 國家高等音樂學院，1971年至1974年間是 ORFT( 法國廣播及電視局 ) 音樂研究小組的成員。 1973 年至 1976 ，他負責帶領 ORFT/INA( 法國國家視聽藝術學院) 實驗錄像的研究工作。 1972 年他開始為他的實驗作品 ( 影片、錄影帶、裝置 ) 製作主體。這些作品結合了他對聲音方面所作的實驗和對現代視覺藝術、攝影和舞蹈的探索。 Cahen 是一位名副其實的先行者，他設計了新的方法來描寫風景、都市景觀及戲劇表演，而同一時間又極力地復興旅遊手記和紀錄片這兩種風格。

Cahen 透過嬉戲般的手法處理聲音和影像、空間和時間，藉此來強調新科技與創意結合的豐富果效，以及提出有關獨立電影和錄像藝術一些在理論上的爭論點。

Cahen 曾在世界各地展出作品，如：巴黎雙年展、紐約當代藝術館、在 洛杉磯舉辦的美國電影學會國家錄像藝術節、海牙的世界錄像藝術節、紐約國際攝影中心、德國卡塞爾舉辦的 Documenta 8 ，及東京藝術節。現時， Cahen 在法國米盧斯居住和從事創作。

EXPOSED WORKS 展覽作品
Exhibition Hall, Hong Kong City Hall
香港大會堂展覽廳

22 May – 2 June (11am-8pm Mon to Sun)
Free Admission 免費入場

• Cartes Postales Vidéos ( Video Postcards - 1984/86)
• 7 Visions (1995-97)
• Suaire (1997)
• Tombe (1997)
• Traverses (2002)

• Le Cercle (2005)
• Sanaa passages en noir (2005)
• Paysages d'hiver (2005)
• Tombe «avec les mots» (2005)
• Françoise (2007)

Fri 23 May – 8pm

• Karine (8mins - 1976)
• Juste le temps ( Just Enough Time - 13mins -1983)
• Le deuxieme jour ( The Second Day - 8mins - 1988)
• Hong Kong Song (21mins - 1989)
• Voyage d'hiver ( Winter Voyage -18mins -1993)
• L'étreinte ( Embraces - 9mins - 2003) /

Thu 29 May – 8pm

• 7 visions fugitives ( 7 Fleeting Visions - 32mins - 1995)
• Canton la Chinoise ( Canton, the Chinese - 52mins - 2001)