The Images Left Behind
Visual Arts
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Description
This is what makes Shiu Sheng Hung’s exhibition, The Images Left Behind, highly relevant and inspiring as he explores the fluidity and preservation of memories as a defence mechanism against the change of times and surrounding environment. The show might appear highly conceptual at first glance: a translucent wall painting, a drawing from the artist’s late mother, an installation made up of vintage postcards and a pile of acrylic paint layers lying on the ground set against some old wood planks propped up against the wall. What seems to be a collection of random objects is essentially Shiu’s attempt to challenge not only our perception of memories but also our imagination of the past with a poetry written in his own brand of visual language. By taking a moment to immerse in the artistic world of Shiu, we contemplate what could be done to preserve the past and make sense of a present that can vanish imminently.
Note：This event record is compiled from "Hong Kong Visual Arts Yearbook 2018" published by Department of Fine Arts, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
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