Fragrant Little Haven
Visual Arts
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Fragrant Little Haven takes a description from Geoffrey Robley Sayer. Hong Kong, means fragrant harbour in Chinese, was only a name of a village at the south of Hong Kong Island before the English came. It was a harbour for transporting the luxury Aquilaria sinensis trees, which produces agarwood, a valuable fragrant wood used for incense and medicine. One and half centuries have past, the artist found out that at least 180 streets in Hong Kong were named after plants.
Hong Kong is no longer the name of a village, the once prosperous habitat for vegetation now replaced by concrete jungle, with only the names on street signs reminding the passers-by of its forgotten past, past with colonial histories that are heavy, hard to imagine, meanwhile romantic. These hundreds of streets shared the same beautiful and romantic street names, becoming Hong Kong, becoming the history of Hong Kong.
Note：This event record is compiled from "Hong Kong Visual Arts Yearbook 2019" published by Department of Fine Arts, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
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