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The "Sparkle! regarding lightness: On Life's Way" exhibition opened at Oi! today (February 13). The exhibition features works by several artists dedicated to different creative aspects and aims to explore the unique worlds that the artists inhabit and the trajectories of their lives.
The exhibition is curated by Yeung Yang, Susi Law, Joao Li, So Wai-lam and Wong Chun-hoi. It is the result of an in-depth dialogue among the curators and the artists that took place over more than two years. The exhibition suggests three states of going - "Where else to go", "Elsewhere to go" and "Way to go" - as entry points to consider the different forms of life journeys and the introspection of the artists, and to prompt people to pay attention to and appreciate the trivial things in daily life through videos, installations, drawings and mixed media works.
Participating artists include Mak Ying-tung, Sunday Lai, Wong Chun-hoi, Thickest Choi, Swing Lam, Fiona Lee, Joe Chan and "Wong Kit-yi (with Ali Wong)". Some of them are questioning "where else to go" and search for the direction of their artistic path, some naturally wander and consider "elsewhere to go" in order to gain feelings from other places, and some believe that art becomes powerful as long as they keep pursuing it to find a "way to go".
Mak Ying-tung uses pedestals that support artworks as a metaphor to reflect the situations of artists, Sunday Lai uses video to capture certain situations or street scenes and puts them together without predetermined direction, and Wong Chun-hoi comments on today's media art through a schema of monotonous and repetitive circuits.
Thickest Choi presents an anthology of diagrams of places in Hong Kong by re-imagining those places through the place names and his personal experiences, while Swing Lam constructs a city from his childhood imagination and Fiona Lee reviews her adventure of exploring the materials of light and sound in the past several years.
Joe Chan has created a "mirror" formed by hundreds of bowls to reflect living in a densely populated city and how people cannot detach themselves from it, and "Wong Kit-yi (with Ali Wong)" will invite audiences to participate in her uncompleted North Pole expedition project in this exhibition.
To tie in with the exhibition, two sessions of talks will be held at Oi!, inviting professionals from different sectors to conduct conversations with the artists in which members of the public are welcome to join. The talk entitled "A Conversation between Artists and Legal Scholar" will be held on February 28 at 3pm to 5pm while a talk entitled "A Conversation between Artists and Physicists" will be held on March 12 at 6pm to 8pm. The quota for each session is 30. Admission is free. For enrolment and enquiries, please call 2512 3000.
"Sparkle! regarding lightness: On Life's Way" is the fifth exhibition of the "Sparkle!" exhibition series, which is organised by Oi! of the Leisure and Cultural Services Department. The series comprises seven exhibitions, all conceived by young and outstanding local curators. Collaborating with design partner Karr Yip, the curators have been drawing up plans for exhibitions that look into the possible merging of art and daily life and its promotion. The exhibitions encourage creativity while making available an open platform at Oi! for local curators and art practitioners.
The "Sparkle! regarding lightness: On Life's Way" exhibition will be held until June 21. Admission is free. Oi! is located at 12 Oil Street, North Point. For details, please visit Oi!'s website at www.lcsd.gov.hk/CE/Museum/APO/en_US/web/apo/oyip_sparkle_regarding_lightness.html, or call at 2512 3000 for enquiries.
Ends/Friday, February 13, 2015
Issued at HKT 19:11
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