Are the black hairs in the heart traits from heredity? Like the special growth on human’s body? Is it just a special growth? Or are they hereditary traits from the memory? Are they traits of memory from the civilized man or traits of memory from the wild man in the past?

TANG Ying Mui, in recent years, dedicates her creation to investigate on ‘heart’ as the subject matter, how it is travelled from ancient to present, and is transformed from animal to human. As civilization evolved through the baptism of life, human steps into the modern world from the primitive one, the basic extinct of human has been moderated by urbanization. Tang’s work is an attempt to dig out human’s primal memory of nature as well as a murmuring of how the nature is eroded by civilization.

About the Artist

Tang Ying Mui graduated with a BA (Fine Art) in Goldsmiths College, University of London and a MSc in University of Westminster. She had worked as an IT professional and lived in London for more than ten years. She is currently working as an artist in Hong Kong.

She uses un-advanced technology, unsophisticated skills and materials (wire and packaging tape, plastic wrapped wire, textile fur, etc) from the industry to build up works and explores the fragile condition of human's existence, the external and internal boundaries built around people.

She is working on a project called " A call from the prehistoric time". She uses the four basic elements in living: clothing, food, shelter and mobility, to explore the way of living and the system in society at our modern age.

She is one of the founding members of MIA (Mere Independent Artists) and award winner of the ADC Award for Arts Education - Non-school category.