Visual Arts

Hong Kong is world renowned as one gigantic shopping mall. Local photo artist Jolans Fung has created a new series of works to convey his views on luxuriant materialism offering his humorous treatments on rampant consumerism.

He says that shops of international and local luxurious brands have repeatedly flourished in various districts and shopping malls reaching out to the general public like branches of trees with the intent to quench the unstoppable desires of the consumers.

“In my works, I attempted to use the shadows of pedestrians to project the inner desires in a consumer city. Quite a number of consumers have taken up the use of luxuriant brands as their own symbols of status. They have lost their own identities and submitted themselves following the waggling tails of the brands,” Fung indicates in his artist’s statement.

This exhibition is Fung’s third solo exhibition in Art Beatus Gallery since 2005. He was trained at the Ecole National Superieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France and graduated in 1990. He also received the Bundanon Artist in Residence in Australia in 2000 and the Vermont Studio Centre Fellowship in 2004.