AJC presents a curated exhibition by Hong Kong artist and curator, Tang Kwok Hin featuring new works by two emerging and two established Hong Kong artists: Annie Wan, Lukas Tam, Trevor Yeung and Casper Chan. Tang has selected or commissioned works which are inspired by, or comment on, recent social and political issues in Hong Kong brought about by the delicate relationship between China and Hong Kong. All communication between the curator and the artists will be made in the form of hand written letters that will be exhibited with English, audio translations as part of the final presentation. The letters represent ideas lost through the ages and offer visitors an unique insight into the, too often esoteric, curatorial process.

The fundamental Chinese writing lesson teaches how to fuse time, place and human/incident/ object together. The total synthesis of these three elements creates pictures and forms characters. This exhibition uses this same practice to uncover an ideology that defines the social, political and cultural identities of a typical Hong Konger. Each artist has been asked to reinterpret, either abstractly or specifically, a time, place and human/incident/object and to compose scenarios, atmosphere, symbols etc., in order to illustrate their own scenarios and stories within the context of the ““scarlet bauhinia in full bloom”. This exhibition intends to capture the essence of the Hong Kong people’s complex, and too often concealed, identity.

-Amelia Johnson Contemporary

Image: © Tang Kwok Hin
Courtesy of the artist and Amelia Johnson Contemporary