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Untitled – Expressway, 2015

2015

Video Installation
Video, Sound, Archival Image, Rolls-Royce vehicle, Arch Wall, Narration
Dimension Variable

Selected Exhibitions

2015
“Untitled – Expressway”, Rolls-Royce Showroom, Hong Kong

Artist Statement

Untitled – Expressway examines the value of sub-urban development in Hong Kong in relation to the irrepressibility of time. Among the policies set by the colonial government, the “Satellite New Town Scheme”, which originated from the British garden city movement in the late nineteenth century, is one of the most influential policies that still matters Hong Kong nowadays. Tuen Mun is known as one of the earliest New Towns established by the former colonial government to expand the development from Hong Kong Island, yet it was historically rich and important. The four channel video installation acts seemingly like a theatrical set that looks into the evolution, presence and future of Tuen Mun. And by including a Rolls Royce automobile in the set, it tighten the work of reviewing colonial policy as of the brand’s unique standing in the history of Hong Kong of being the carriage for the colonial governor.

A to and fro journey that cruises a route connecting the present heart of Hong Kong and the satellite town is carried with the same vehicle. The journey from a middle class neighborhood to an impoverished one reflects on the economic disparity and bears witness to the physical changes of the city and its possible extinction, while such a “loop” signifies a perpetual temporal cycle that dictates the living of many inhabitants of Hong Kong and the development of the place itself. The research and the comment on the development in Tuen Mun is resulted as the set which woven between documents and myth; abstract visuals and inanimate cityscape; authoritative narration and peculiar ambient sound; archival image and rendered animation.

Untitled – Expressway, 2015

Installation View

Untitled – Expressway, 2015

Installation View

Untitled – Expressway, 2015

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Untitled – Expressway, 2015

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Untitled – Expressway, 2015

Installation View

Untitled – Expressway, 2015

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Untitled – Expressway, 2015

Installation View

Untitled – Expressway, 2015

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Untitled – Expressway, 2015

Installation View

Untitled – Expressway, 2015

Archival Image