“YA KAN SAN PO” Chivas Leung Wai Yan’s solo exhibition
Visual Arts
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Under a lavender sky full of stars, a giant bird overlooks nocturnal streets as a fish leaps out of water—these are all night-time cityscapes in Chivas Leung Wai Yan’s eyes. When Chivas saunters on the streets with her headphones on, she can transcend temporal and spatial boundaries and build a surreal world of her own. Chivas created a series of water-based woodblock prints to present scenes that appeared in her mind during her night strolls. With bright colours and comics features, her work is a unique blend of playfulness and whimsy. Raw textures of the woodblock punctuate Chivas’ oeuvre, perhaps as a testament to the artist’s bold carving and printing gestures as well as her character. As Chivas Leung Wai Yan’s first solo exhibition, “ya kan san po” is the culmination of woodblock prints Chivas made during her six-month residency at HKOP.
We all live in a world that is relentlessly fast-paced, but some of us prefer to wander and dwell on extraordinary moments of their imagination with art, especially its contemplative process of making.
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