Seven artists from, or based in Hong Kong explore the ‘city’ we live in through different media: drawing, photography, collage, painting and sculpture.

So Hing Keung, one of Hong’s best renowned photographers depicts urban landscape as stuff from nightmares.

Old landmarks perplexingly disappear, giving way to new development. Reality solidifies only for a moment, and before it can be fully grasped, dissolves. The agony of Hong Kong’s streetscape is that it must continuously kill itself – and estrange itself from the people – in order to live. (from hong kong/china photographers, ‘so hing keung’ by oscar ho, published by Asia One).

Charles expresses his ideas on how we relate as physical human beings to the buildings that surround us. He made it his own personal project to photograph and sketch every building he entered in the last 10 years.

Bob Davies, a press photographer who used to run his own agency in Hong Kong in the 70’s dug out an old collection of photograph from this travels in China in the 80’s,  developed from films that were lost for over a decade and almost decayed; like the China as we knew it then has also disappeared. The photographs are taken in a near past but its alienated images depict a very different China then how we know it today.

Lo Kwan Chi’s angle is from a Chinese ink painter perspective and he depicts the streets, empty, deserted, de-humanized as a pure idea of a ‘street’ derived from the pure idea of a mountain from traditional landscape painters.

Sebastian Pascot created a sculpture out of debris, discarded by city dwellers and brings to our attention our consumerist behavior.

Halley Cheng’s watercolors from an urban landscape make us look at the city, alienated from green and nature, replaced by urban elements.

Christophe Demaitre, a Belgian artist based in Shanghai develops his images on canvas or discarded objects.He catches those fleeting moments and turns them into alienated and timeless black and white images.