Mirroring, Windowing, Lifting
Mirroring, Windowing, Lifting
Artist: OCTAVIA CHEN, JACKIN LEUNG, KENNY WONG, LO CHUN YIP, TUNG WING HONG
Curated by LAM CHING TUNG, LIU JIA YI, WU HAI JING, YANG HAO YI, ZONG HAI PEI
Introduction
What truly connects us? Explore the invisible threads binding us to ourselves, others, and the world in this thought-provoking exhibition. Driven by curiosity, discover how past experiences resurface and shape our choices. Artists use diverse media to act as both “mirrors” reflecting our inner selves and “windows” opening onto new perspectives. Experience how these works “lift” you to see the familiar and unfamiliar in surprising ways, prompting deeper questions about the connections we choose versus those assigned to us. Journey through the mystery of human relationships and discover new vantage points on your own story.
OCTAVIA CHEN
Strait is the Gate 2017 Strait is the Gate 2023 Strait is the Gate 1997 2023
Digital Art Inkjet print on light box film 112.6 x 80.6 x 2 cm
Strait is the Gate (2023) is a creative extension anchored in family history spanning from the 1960s to the contemporary era, embodying an experimental dialogue that traverses literature and visual art. This series poses a pivotal question: How might artists, through corporeal mediation, anchor unquantifiable emotional fragments within the interplay of algorithms and pigments, databases and canvases? |  |
JACKIN LEUNG
你想找回哪一個在昨天遺失的自己 Pencil on paper This silent dream carries us on drifting boats, where waterborne reflections gently unravel concealed hearts. Pyramids and the moon cast their solitary glow, stirring longings buried beneath time’s silt. Yesterday’s return—selves adorned with crystalline laughter or salt-tinged sorrow. A soundless summons echoes through the mist, our fingertips hesitating where liquid memories turn glacial. Drifting deeper into memory's vortex, regrets surface—achingly tangible yet impossibly distant, like moonlight fracturing on trembling waves. | 
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JACKIN LEUNG
你想找回哪一個在昨天遺失的自己 Pencil on paper
Amid wind and rain, solitude becomes honest companionship. The coffee's bitterness lingers like unspoken truths—no crowd-noise required for inner peace. Sheltered beneath my umbrella, this stormy dialogue with self isn’t loneliness, but warmth crystallized. Sometimes stillness reveals us more profoundly than any gathering ever could. |  |
JACKIN LEUNG
擔遮飲咖啡 Pencil on paper
Amid wind and rain, solitude becomes honest companionship. The coffee's bitterness lingers like unspoken truths—no crowd-noise required for inner peace. Sheltered beneath my umbrella, this stormy dialogue with self isn’t loneliness, but warmth crystallized. Sometimes stillness reveals us more profoundly than any gathering ever could. |  |
KENNY WONG
Undermine. waning
Undermine.waning explores the artist's psychological state through a dual kinetic system that activates video on a monitor. A sub-branch of "Undermine," it focuses on the relational dynamics between the two systems. The work features a high-speed spinning mechanism that stabilizes an LCD display showing an overhead video of a woman By modifying a normal LED screen with circular backlighting, it juxtaposes disturbing kinetic motion with the slow, natural movements of the body. The piece highlights themes of attraction and repulsion, balance, and fragility.
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LO CHUN-YIP
Lifting The video Lifting explores the distance and connections between people, events, and objects through the dance and dialogue of two protagonists in elevators. It delves into the choices we make regarding relationships, highlighting how curiosity and interactions can bridge gaps or emphasize separations. The unique setting of the elevator serves as a confined space where emotions and thoughts unfold, prompting viewers to reflect on the nature of human connections and the significance of our choices in fostering relationships.
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TUNG WING HONG
Mind Cut 2018
Mind Cut employs high speed rotation and creates motion-blurred effects resembling a zoetropic sequence. The afterimages metaphor the conscious fragments and the ontology of existence along the timeline. The artist superimposes imagery to trace the overlapping trajectories of memory which seem to be torn apart by space and time. The visual presented not merely the physiological phenomenon of retinal persistence but also reflected the fragmented existential subjectivity of the digital age.
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