The Lost Time Travel Machine – Angela Yuen Solo Exhibition
Visual Arts
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Contemporary by Angela Li is pleased to present The Lost Time Travel Machine, a solo exhibition of Hong Kong artist Angela Yuen. With a long fascination of all things local and nostalgic, Yuen uses manufactured plastic toys, old-fashioned stationeries and Hong Kong’s iconic objects to create playful three-dimensional sculptures and installations, casting colourful shadows which resemble Hong Kong’ magnificent skylines and street scenes. In her latest works, Yuen continues to explore elements that represents Hong Kong’s history and culture, such as ice-cream motorcycle, street vendors, trams, rickshaws, sampan boats and the demolished Queen’s Pier. Like still frames from old Hong Kong movies, her works bring audiences to a parallel dimension, where some of the faded local cultural elements and currently significant urban characters of today coexist.
This first major solo exhibition of Yuen showcases her signature three-dimensional sculptures, both kinetic and static, with their shadows projecting beautiful silhouettes of Hong Kong’s skyline, as well as her newly developed wall hanging installations that capture lively local street scenes. Her works are nostalgic and cheerful with a sense of playfulness, incorporating old-fashioned plastic objects including plastic rulers, stencils, hair curlers, toy soldiers, rubber ducks, capsule toys, tea party sets and floral beads that occupy the surfaces. Strategically placed lights in the sculptures transform objects into imaginative silhouettes and stories; every object is carefully choreographed, combining cast coloured shadows to produce unexpected, stunning visual results.
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Indoor
Local