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“Non-place” and “The Place”: KO Chi-Keung in Conversation with TANG Ying Chi
05/10/2021|Archive
【展覽資訊 Information of Exhibition】
展覽日期 Date：
2021.10.05 - 2021.10.31
開放時間 Time：
Tue to Sun 11:00am - 1:00pm, 2:00pm - 6:00pm (Closed on Mondays)
展覽地址 Venue：
光影作坊 | 九龍石硤尾白田街30號賽馬會創意藝術中心 L2-02
Lumenvisum｜L2-02, JCCAC, 30 Pak Tin Street, Shek Kip Mei, Kowloon
參觀登記 Registration for Visiting：
https://www.eventbrite.hk/e/180785583547
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Lumenvisum presents you: “Non-place” and “The Place”: KO Chi-Keung in Conversation with TANG Ying Chi, in October 2021. Curated by scholar ZENG Hong, the photographs by KO Chi-Keung, and works on canvas with mixed media by TANG Ying Chi, were put together to have conversation, and let the viewer to examine the relationship between subject and space.
Hong Kong has experienced dramatic changes in 2019, 2020. Although KO Chi-Keung can no longer take photos at the frontline, his thinking has never been stopped, and he still depends on photography to express the emotions. He created a series of B/W photographs of Hong Kong spaces, using the concept of "Non-place" as a metaphor, visualising the feature and the destiny of transition and temporariness.
Some people are leaving their homeland, looking for a freer place due to the changing social situation. TANG Ying Chi feels that the history is just repeating itself. She thinks of the ancients was pursuing their individual freedom behind the ink painting. Her colourful works The Place, adopt the methodology of ink art, but directly touches the viewers’ emotional release rather than escapism.
"One enduring topic in Hong Kong contemporary art is the subject in relation to space. Artists use various media and methodologies to represent their embodied experiences of compressed living space, or their contemplations about place identity engendered," said by curator ZENG Hong, "KO Chi-Keung and TangTANG Ying Chi are two artists heralded in Hong Kong art history as 'bringing a new wave from overseas to the local art scene' in the 1980s and 1990s. At this moment, they converse about spatial representation through co-presenting their photography and painting."