Master of Obsession
Visual Arts
Description
Description
A “wanderer in troubled waters”, Chinese seal artist Thomas Kong makes a living from seal carving. For years, he has helped numerous couples engrave their names on stone after stone – to seal and to symbolise their sentiment, a memento of love.
Since who knows when, clients from all walks of life started to tell Kong their love stories when he presented the consigned works. From then on, he was told the wildest and strangest tales.
In this exhibition, Kong becomes the “Master of Obsession” like in the legendary Chinese novel Dream of the Red Chamber, as he recounts chapters of marriages and love stories from his consignees. Be it love affairs, infatuation, unrequited love, or open and complicated relationships, it is a taste of lust and life.
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