Traces of Life is an honest response to the current state of affairs in Hong Kong. 2020 has been a challenging year for all. Uncertainties have displaced expectations and disoriented city dwellers. Through this exhibition, we re-anchor ourselves by observing, documenting and engaging with the place that is most familiar to us – our home. Through collecting and recording traces of life in the space that we call ‘home’, we wish to outline each home’s uniqueness and share them with you. Along the journey, we hope that you find a point of reflection, discover the familiar despite differences, and explore what ‘home’ might mean to you.

10 Chancery Lane Gallery is proud to present Unfolding into the Expanse, a series of works by Beijing based artist Liang Hao. This marks Liang’s first solo exhibition in Hong Kong. Curated by Tang Zehui, Unfolding into the Expanse will be on display from the 16th January – 29th February 2020. The content’s of Liang’s ethereal paintings present the paradoxical of a metaphor both concrete and immaterial. The works place the viewer within a space of psychological weightlessness. The bright and even canvas creates a sterile plane while the luminescent objects seems to melt into the frame. A relationship between concrete and abstract emerges. Heavily inspired by baroque philosophy Liang delves into philosopher Gilles Deleuze’s explication of The Fold. Deleuze posits that our current reality is constantly becoming, or coming into being, therefore folds between the different expressions of the present contain unique reflections of reality. Liang believes that painting is a mirror to life, and thus he uses a mirror within his work to create another layer of perception. The mirror creates a disillusion. Liang explains, “I realized that in fact, I was attracted by another thing — the image of reflection, perhaps mostly because of its spatial attribute, or the attribute of unknown space. If the mirror is presented as a kind of reflection, I think it is a kind of replication of space or image, however the reflection of metal, is like information going from another space, like data, which has an infinite sense of distance in my imagination.” The viewer is asked to consider ones self within these folds of time, space and materiality. The human form is the subject but is never presented as a whole. The experience of the viewer in conversation with the work becomes supreme. As Liang creates his own world within each painting he is focused on transmitting this same exploration within the viewer. Faces are never seen in their totality and fragments of hands are painted with extreme detail — another reflection back at the viewer. Ultimately, Liang creates a visceral look into the self, ignited by a meditation in the constant metamorphosis of reality.

With Hong Kong’s spring season emerging, Inter-island Festival is launching soon from 26th to 28th March (Friday to Sunday). Design Trust Feature Grantee Yip Kai Chun and his team, Myriem Alnet and Chan Chun Kit, and initiators of ISLANDERS map-zine, have been unwaveringly curating and planning this upcoming 3-day weekend festival amongst the COVID-19 challenges last year. Public installations, walks, exhibition-pop-ups will connect Hong Kong’s rich island culture of Peng Chau, Cheung Chau and Mui Wo and Chi Ma Wan on Lantau Island to highlight the distinct environment, communities and history of these islands to promote and protect their shared value and culture through design and cultural works. Selected works from the DESIGN TRUST: Critically Homemade collection will be displayed at Islanders Space Hoi Sing on Peng Chau during the Festival. and available here: ePopUp

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A group of artists, architects and life walkers contemplate and study the possible dimensions of living. How art could intervene in this mundane issue of everyday life? Could art provide “solutions” or something beyond “solutions”? Through the abstract idea of “House”, artists, architects, life walkers and students open up dialogues on visual arts, architecture and the art of living, and propose 13 dimensions of living.
“The Dimensions of Living: A House is” will showcase 13 “houses”. Each of them an artistic exposition of mundane issues, which invites viewers to re-imagine the possibility of housing and living in the everyday life.

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