Visual Arts

Let words and poetry roam free
Reading ignites fancy, art fosters whimsy. Words are not just graphic, they can be reimagined in multifarious ways.
We live in a digital age awash in images. Can we find a moment to savour the rhythmic precision of short essays or the lyrical expansion of epic poetry? The lonely tram in Ye Si’s Freezing Night·Tram Depot becomes the springboard, and Liu Yichang’s inverted Chinese characters are recast through dancers’ body movements, as artists renew their vision in different media.
Following the interactive art piece in , It All Begins with a Word enters the Hong Kong Central Library this year. Various installations centre on renowned local writers from the s to the s, as creative artists from different art forms respond to them with body movements and moving images.
Although literature can be transformed in space, original texts are never in danger of being lost in translation.