Visual Arts

Our Everyday—Our Borders came about from workshops and public participation, bringing together two Asian artists, Tang Kwok Hin (Hong Kong) and Motoyuki Shitamichi (Japan). Both engage in various forms of participation and exploration—including entering into the homes of local volunteers or taking up conversations with secondary-school students.

Though the works of both artists are displayed on the two sides of the exhibition space, there are many overlaps in how they deal with the concept of the everyday and borders. Both reflect on borders beyond the physical—pointing at the everyday imaginary of borders, from urban order, consumerism, social values, family morals, to geopolitics. Their works dig up notions of “borders” arising from human interaction. By performing, displaying, gathering, transforming, transcribing, or documenting these fluid borders, they seek to remind one of the possibilities of life amongst human beings.