Always After Now Highlight of the Month – Chow Chun Fai
Visual Arts
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{Before} and After
The works of Chow Chun Fai often bear traces of time. With this exhibition, he captures moments from the past, present, and future. The artist selects plots in the movie series that depict the people and events of a particular era to evoke collective memories for viewers. Fragments collected from current news are relevant to our present lives and address timely issues. These existing images, which also represent the social awareness of others, are like history that has happened.
{After} and Before
The works incorporate metaphors drawn from tarot card images, leading us into the unknown.
Tarot cards serve as a bridge between anticipation and reality, and they are filled with a multitude of allusions and references. Chow Chun Fai’s series of work reflects his commentary on the current ever-evolving era. Through rational narrative and arbitrary assemblages, the motif of his works remains perpetually suspended. As we seek to be rational and sensitive simultaneously, we discover that we cannot take any stand apart from one another. In an era of uncertainty, the Tarot Series might prove a significant footnote left by the artist.
In response to Chow Chun Fai’s Tarot painting series, Hong Kong ceramicist Li Wei Han, Rosanna, created five pieces of work about divination and the local culture of Temple Street. On view concurrently, her works exemplify her whimsical and down-to-earth artistic style, capturing bits of everyday life in the community.
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