The sands of the beach are polished by the sun, the sea, the moon, the wind, day by day, into a beautiful white. What will the sand to do with being white? Still a long journey to go. When artists are going into their midlife, how aging is reflected by their works? This is an exhibition showing the diversity of middle age artists. They are voices from the post 60s and 50s. It is a disclosure of private feelings under specific Hong Kong context. It shows the emotional and political complexity on aging. Also, generation gap is such a focal point in recent political debate, how artists address to this?

 

Ten local artists from different disciplines are invited to have a reflexive creative responses to the question: how aging have impacts on your spiritual, creative and identity creation after umbrella movement.

 

Aging is now a globalized social fact, yet not only about economic figures or body changed, but also sense of history, discourse on experiences, memories and identity, aging and cultural ecology, time and media progression, and spiritual transformation. The exhibition aims at unleashing more voices from post 60s and start up public conversation on cultural meanings of aging.

 

The project is curated by Cally Yu from Grey and Green Ping Pong and artists are: Ching Wah Chan (painting and text) ,Enoch Cheung, (multimedia),Virginia Sau Man Chu, (music and movement) Chung Wai Ching, Bryan (multimedia), Benny Lau(installation), Li Chi Tak (painting) Lo King Wah (video), Anson Mak (sound installation), Annie Wan (ceramics), Cally Yu (text).