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Crossroads in Time
VS Term-end Student Exhibition of 2nd term 2021-22
This exhibition Crossroads in Time celebrates a collection of engaging works created by students who have enrolled in various studio courses at the Department of Digital Arts and Creative Industries, Lingnan University in the 21/22 academic year. The exhibition includes watercolour drawing, video works, cyanotype print, stop-motion animation, and textile work. These works demonstrate the students’ mastery of technical skills in their respective art practices as well as their dedication in their artistic research.
Situated at the crossroads of a challenging time, both globally and locally, the students drew inspiration from their observation of the city and its people, archival materials from artists and institutions, their own daily experiences, or purely from their fantasies to create their artworks. As a result, this virtual exhibition serves as a reminder of crucial humanistic values, such as empathy and resilience, necessitated in trying times.
Crossroads in Time (30th Jun – 4th Oct 2022)
Situated at the crossroads of a challenging time, both globally and locally, the students drew inspiration from their observation of the city and its people, archival materials from artists and institutions, their own daily experiences, or purely from their fantasies to create their artworks. As a result, this virtual exhibition serves as a reminder of crucial humanistic values, such as empathy and resilience, necessitated in trying times.
* Artwork dimension in the description do not reflect the actual size of the artwork but for the best illustrative purpose in this virtual exhibition only.
Title and Artist | Size and Medium | Description |
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Things To Do Under COVID-19 by CAI Ue Ning Helen | 15 x 22 cm Watercolor on paper | I want to draw something that can record my daily life. The most influential thing in our life in recent years is COVID-19. So, I tried to draw my table during COVID in the middle of the drawing. I also drew people’s outdoor activities around the table representing the life before COVID-19 to show we are being trapped in home (table) during COVID-19, not as free as the people outside the box in the middle of the drawing. |
Pain & Growth by HO Yu Ting Kelly | 25 x 18 cm Comic | Pain exists in everyone’s life no matter how old and how professional we are. We might suffer in such pain but what we should do is to grow from the pain. Let’s utilize our pain to be our “nutrient”. Flower blossom must happen afterwards. |
House Revisited by NG Sin Ying Bella | 18 x 25 cm Stop-motion animation | This house has spat me out a long time ago but no one noticed. None of them saw me. Where has everyone else gone to? Bowls are on the table as we left them and I have not finished mine. My bowl finishes me. Background music credit: Winter Aid — The Wisp Sings |
Untitled (Studies of my mother) by NG Tsun Yan Cheyenne | 19 x 24 cm Drawing and embroidery on garment | Through observing my mother’s eyes and hands, I realised she is getting older and older. I depicted her wrinkles and the rough texture of her hands by using lines with different thickness, lightness and darkness. The expressive embroidery lines contrast greatly with the realistic drawings. What is more, I have a deeper understanding about my mother after completing this project. |
Resentment by SADVOKASSOVA Darya | 16 x 24 cm/ 24 x 16 cm (10 images) Wax crayon on paper | When looking at the drawings, I wanted a viewer to consider it from a particular angle and read it in a certain order, so they could experience the stages of resentment as I see it:
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Look After by CHAU Kwan Yin | 17 x 23 cm (7 images) Cyanotype | By capturing the lonely elderlies on the street through my cyanotype image series, I am accentuating and reflecting on the social issue of more and more elderlies living alone in this ageing city. |
Untitled (Reunion) by CHAN Shiu Chun Prix | 18 x 43 cm Video | Over the past few years, a migration wave occurred. A lot of people left Hong Kong for various reasons. For them, it is uncertain whether they will return to Hong Kong one day. And for those who chose to stay in Hong Kong, the opportunity of reuniting with the friends that travelled far over the seas became an uncertain variable. Therefore, it is very important to treasure the time with friends. |
Untitled (Inner peace) by CHOW Ling Chee | 18 x 32 cm Video | Stress, panic, anxious are around us. When there is war in a part of the world and virus everywhere, people in Hong Kong still have to face the long working hour which 9 hours a day plus overtime plus “homework”. People do feel stressed and suffocated living under this atmosphere. However, when we faced the unsatisfactory outside, there is always something that helps us to relax which is the things we LOVE and it could be anything. |
ONE TWO ZERO by FAN Yujian Curt | 18 x 32 cm Video | The story tells about a man who accidentally dropped a pick inside a guitar, and he found that everything he put inside it would turn into two. As a result, he tried to put all the money into the guitar, but… |
Whoa! by LAO Hoi Ki | 25 x 25 cm Digital Collage | Suction – food diversity |
Around the corner by NG Sin Ying Bella | 25 x 25 cm Digital Collage | Redevelopment could always happen not far away from us as well as sooner than we anticipate. |
Diversified City by WONG Wan Ling | 25 x 25 cm Digital Collage | Hong Kong is a city composed of buildings of different historical background and our society is made up of people from different communities. |
Untitled (From Archive: Cities on the Move, 1997 – 1999) by SHENG Xinyi Stella | 23 x 227 cm Digital Illustration | My illustration project is inspired and rooted from the collection of and exhibition archive of "Cities on the Move" (1997-1999), which is housed in Asia Art Archive. Artworks in the show unfolded creators’ vision of the city's past and future. I found my interest, from their writing and artwork archive, to explore the issue of the contradiction and confrontation between tradition and urban development; the issue of the contradiction and ambiguity in the relationship between nature and cities; and the exploration of space. |
I Made a Promise with the Dragon by WONG Hiu Wa | 16 x 28 cm Picture book | I learned about the Gu Wenda’s artworks and related texts through Asia Art Archive. In addition to the boldly and playful innovating form of ink and wash, he also philosophically conveyed his personal life insights and his views on social issues. This triggered me to create an allegorical picture book based on the story of a "Dragon" and "I". Absorbing Gu's thinking logic of symbols and patterns, as well as word play, I am exploring the topic on "the connection between myself and the world". The story, emphasizing on the infectiousness and the meaning of picture, tells a utopian fairy tale with a hundred of feelings. |
Game Over by YAU Tsz Wing Kiki | 16 x 28 cm Animation | As I intended to present my post-death fantasy world in the form of a game screen, it seemed most appropriate to use the game's description of death, i.e., 'Game Over,' as the title of my animation. In Asia Art Archive, I have came across Fung Mengbo's and Francesca Dal Lago’s archival materials for keywords like 'game over, 'death', and 'life'. |
Instruction Manual Series by LI Weijia Wendy | 33 x 25 cm (5 images) Digital Illustration | By creating a micro-world loaded with multifarious visuals and underlying stories, "Instruction Manual" tries to arouse viewers’ awareness of observing medicines critically with their unique experiences. As the creator of "Instruction Manual", the practice of discerning mundane objects not only as necessities but also as a motivation for art production helped me to gain more artistic sensibility and cherish the everyday routines from a creative perspective. |
Discovery by CHUA Kwai Wa Lily | 18 x 25 cm Picture book | In our life, we are easily attracted by beautiful flowers, but easily ignore the greenery backdrop created by weed. Although they seem to be insignificant and often undervalued, there is an indomitable attitude within them that worth to be discovered and learnt from. |
Ice-cream Boy by DESIERTO Josaya Josh | 29 x 21 cm Picture book | A story about a boy and his ice-cream. |
Remember Love by LI Yuying | 18 x 25 cm Picture book | After some years, there are things that might be forgotten by us. When I can still remember and when everyone is still around, let’s put that into a record. |