Visual Arts

I hope you are doing well is a simple and common email greeting. Since 2020, which has undergone tremendous changes and is full of crises and challenges, everything is no longer taken for granted. A greeting became precious, even touching and meaningful. Last year, emails from different corners of the distancing world inspired the artist to develop a project that starts from greetings and caring. This year, the artist met art and culture practitioners in different fields from Hong Kong and worldwide on online meeting platform, and chatted about their change and reflection in life, work, thoughts of art, and their re-imagination of future under the pandemic. Twenty interviews have been conducted. The selected quotes and content excerpts will be exhibited as outdoor installation art (L7 Green Space) and video (L7-12A MOST), presenting different perspectives and echoing one another. The artist hopes to archive and present the real living condition and thought of art and culture practitioners in this unique era, so that they can become individual stories and voices outside of the grand narrative, archiving part of the testimony to history, and hope to see how the future can be reconstructed. In addition to attempting to create a work that contain temperature in the distance, and to enlighten the audience through the reflection of the interviewees, the artist also wants to re-examine the role and meaning of art in the new normal, and explore the impact of technology such as online platforms on the connection between people.
“I Hope You Are Doing Well” is Monique Yim’s project conceived in 2020, organized and implemented in 2021. The work is constructed from issue-based interviews and research, focusing on process and participation. Yim sincerely thanks the following friends for their valuable sharing and trust. She would like to thank the practitioners of different professions and roles in the art and culture field for their efforts to face the crisis, challenges, and work in obscurity under the turmoil of the past two years.