The exhibition will be divided into two spaces. The first one focuses on the interaction between the artists and audiences. Audiences are invited to respond to questions raised by the artists, then their answers are gathered and consolidated in the installation. Through collective ideas, a blueprint of ideal living of community is formed and draw us to review what ideal living is.
The other space is artwork display. Participating artists would show works in response to “ideal living” with their own personal interpretation. The two spaces together form an interesting conversation.

Sketching is the cornerstone for physical art practices and a means for creative expressions. As an independent art form, sketching is primitive, simple and straightforward in terms of visual expression, enlightening and inspiring visual arts thinking.

During my childhood, as with most Hong Kong people, travelling to outlying island on a weekend would be my great expedition to the beyond because everything was so different than living in the city proper. The laid back atmosphere starkly contrast to the urban overloaded hustle and bustle. The reason for such lifestyle is simple, detached from the main body of land, these islands are not accessible by any form of transport except by ferry services. The only form of transport on the island is by bicycle and on foot.

These islands might still sound seclusive and exotic as of today. All of them are either facing urbanisation or deterioration. Most of them are suffering from aging population where the young ones have all moved to the urban areas. After more than a year of planning and multiple visits to these islands, I hope to present the project as a snapshot of a fleeting lifestyle that is as integral as any of Hong Kong.

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With millions of people participating in multiple protests in 2019, Fan attempted to explore the changes in social conditions of Hong Kong through portraits.

In an era where antagonism and calmness could coexist, traffic lights are both a faithful navigator and silent witness of a city’s history. In the course of 2019, the image creator walked through different areas of Hong Kong, capturing streetside fragments that occurred within the ‘3 seconds’ when the yellow light was on. Just as the function of the yellow lights, Hong Kong as a city is also undergoing a constant transition/tussle between GO (green) and STOP (red). This photo series serves as a side record of ordinary stories and significant moments that happened during the crucial year of 2019.

Many uniquely designed old residential buildings have disappeared, either through renovations or redevelopment over time. Like many residents there, they never returned; all that is left are only memories and images.

I went to these old neighbourhood to take photographs as a way of reminiscing about the good old days. Traces found in these dwellings from the 1960s are as though imprints of their stories and spirits. Along with the unique craftsmanship and serene atmosphere in the neighbourhoods, they compel me to recapture fond memories through photography.

How do the photographs of a hardcore-environmentalist-hiker reflect his ideas of Hong Kong in its current climate? Lo Kin Man documented his journey, which took him through Kowloon Peak in 2012, last image of it taken in 2018, across all 18 districts, up the foggy heights of Victoria Peak, then down to the depths of Mongkok. The resultant work, through the process of hiking and a prolonged documentation, in turn became an archive of visual records of the city. Perhaps these images can break new grounds for the reimagined Hong Kong communities.

Silent Photos, Howling Memories.

Having been a photojournalist since 1995, frequently travelling between Hong Kong, China and Macau, I have accumulated an archive of images in film and digital over the past 20 years. In time, my memory of these individual images fused with my subconscious into different amalgams. By re-presenting these memory amalgams in image form I try to comprehend the working of my deeper consciousness and so doing that I shall re-create new memories, which in turn form my new consciousness, and the new me…