“Wall” is a very common object in our everyday life but it also separate people from their homeland, the city outside the “Wall” is evolving, maybe one day our homeland will be completely segregated , and we can only have a glance until we climb to the top of the “Wall”.

Gavin Au is a young emerging artist who is being well-known of art creation with D.I.Y. digital camera. He believes an artist should create his own tool for the creation of art. In recent years, he is focusing on photography as a media for dialogue with the society. In this exhibition, he created a new D.I.Y. camera and a portable outdoor darkroom to explore this “Still sitting on the wall” tintype series. Gavin tried to present one set of his artworks as a response to the phenomena happened in China and Hong Kong in the past year.

“Sit on top of the wall, no matter it is the fantasy or hesitation towards the future, we can only remain sitting on top of this borderline” Gavin Au

About Gavin Au
Gavin Au Ka Yiu is a Hong Kong-based artist. He graduated from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in 2006 and received the Gold Winner in the Asia Photo Awards 07 presented by the Hong Kong Institute of Professional Photographers Ltd. His works have been chosen as the cover of the Chinese photography magazine “Chinese Photography”, entered Philippe Charriol Foundation Art Competition 2006 and Serbin International Photography Contest 2006 respectively. In 2010, he was awarded the Artist – In – Residency by the Hong Kong Open Printshop and received the honorable mention in IPA international photography awards. His works were collected by The Hong Kong Heritage Museum and different collectors. In recent years, his works have been presented in various local and international exhibitions and events.

Gavin has a belief: “What I learnt about photography was delivered by the former people, footprints of the past, so I have to travel through into the photographic history and experience the process by myself.” Photography is an adventure to explore the possibility and transformation in his own way.

《Still sitting on the wall – A wet plate art project by Gavin Au 》
Opening: 01/04/2011, 6-8pm
Exhibition: 02/04 – 24/04/2011, 11am – 7pm (closed on Monday)
Venue: Lumenvisum, L2-10, JCCAC, 30 Pak Tin Street, Shek Kip Mei, Kowloon.
Artist talk and workshop: 17/04/2011, 3-5pm