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After being well received in Liverpool and Taipei, the artworks from the "All Are Guests" exhibition are now back in Hong Kong for display at the Hong Kong Museum of Art.
The "All Are Guests - Homecoming" exhibition, which opens tomorrow (October 18), features works by artists Leung Mee-ping, Chow Chun-fai and art group CoLAB x SLOW. Through different media, the participating artists examine their own sense of self in relation to the city in the light of the intricate yet subtle host-guest dynamics of the contemporary world.
Leung Mee-ping's video installation "Out of Place" focuses her lens on drifters roaming in different Asian cities and expresses her concerns about marginalised social groups while exploring the identity of urban visitors. In a regional perspective, her work reveals the hefty social price in terms of wider wealth gaps and unemployment resulting from globalisation of trade and extraordinary economic growth. Being an artist based in an international city, Leung produces work that reflects the tension between individuals and collectives in developing cities. Her work addresses social issues and shows the depth of her human concern, which is also expressed in most works by Hong Kong artists.
In "Reproducing 'Hong Kong Our Home Theme Song'", Chow Chun-fai rediscovers the city in which he was born and bred and ponders the meaning of a city's "real" portrait through the process of reconstruction and integration. His work examines and searches for the cultural identity of Hong Kong in a satirical mood, echoing the signs of identity crisis and black humour prevalent in Hong Kong art.
"So... Soap!" by CoLAB x SLOW is a cross-disciplinary collaboration project that brings together creative forces in design, music and video-making with community-based non-governmental organisations. Participants intervene in the city and serve the grass roots with social enterprise initiatives. As a social enterprise project and a design product making its way towards an art exhibition, it blurs the subject-object roles in the art world in a thought-provoking way. The project's existence helps challenge established thinking and conceptions in the contemporary art world.
The "All Are Guests" exhibition has participated in the Liverpool Biennial 2012 in the United Kingdom and Hong Kong Week 2013 in Taipei. The Hong Kong Museum of Art has brought the artworks back to Hong Kong to share with local audiences the artists' creativity and achievements.
The Hong Kong Museum of Art is located at 10 Salisbury Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon. For further information, please call 2721 0116 or visit the Museum's website at www.lcsd.gov.hk/CE/Museum/Arts/en_US/web/ma/exhibition.html.
Ends/Friday, October 17, 2014
Issued at HKT 20:33
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