Noon Gazette And Daily Spy
Visual Arts
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Description
Duddell’s is proud to present its summer exhibition Noon Gazette and Daily Spy curated by Hong Kong curator Jims Lam Chi Hang. The exhibition will incorporate a number of emerging and established Hong Kong artists. It showcases new and existing works of Lam Hoi Sin, Song Ta, Leung Chi Wo and Yip Kin Boon. This will be Duddell’s third exhibition with a focus on Hong Kong’s fast-growing art scene.
For this exhibition, the curator takes inspiration from an interesting phenomenon in the publishing history of Hong Kong. Noon and evening newspapers had once played an important role in the history of publishing industry worldwide. Today’s newspaper market had shrunk immensely, and such formats of publications no longer exist in Hong Kong. Typically newspapers are published daily in the morning. Noon and evening newspapers were published later as a supplement to the morning papers. They reflected a certain time lag in the development of stories, resulting in a successful communication model in the past.
So how did this ‘Moment of Time Lag’ satisfy the desire of citizen for particular news? In present day, has such desire been satisfied by an alternative reading pattern? It is difficult to investigate whether the model of noon and evening newspaper was an extension on stories. Nevertheless it added another layer of a meaningful and thought-provoking flavor to this disappearing media. As an extension to this concept, we consider the “moment of time lag” as a instant opportunity, allowing the artists to fulfill this faded time lag with their very own language.
Note：This event record is compiled from "Hong Kong Visual Arts Yearbook 2016" published by Department of Fine Arts, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
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