Au Hoi Lam 區凱琳, Chang Hoi Wood 張海活
If there is a garden, where would I be? 如果有個庭園，我會在哪裏?
Aug 24 – Sep 14, 2025
1a space
Unit 14, Cattle Depot Artist Village
63 Ma Tau Kok Road
To Kwa Wan, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Tuesday – Sunday, 11am – 6pm
T +852 2529 0087
If there is a garden, where would I be? is a visual and spatial art project in which a “garden” is created for viewers to stay, explore and enjoy.
Though gardens relate to the nature, all gardens are indeed artificial. Nature within the garden is a human projection with layers of mediation. This Garden consists of two areas: “In the Shade” and “In the Garden”. Allowing one to be temporarily isolated from daily life, this Garden is on one hand a physical space where one could stroll, stay and spend time in, with tangible artefacts as elements positioned within; and also a mental landscape which connects us with the intangible— the light, the shadow, the air, the trajectory of the moon, the disappearance of things. Composed of multiple materials, this Garden is an oeuvre that blurs the distinction between subject and background. Within this Garden, viewers are free to open up their sensibility to see and to feel, so as to consciously recalibrate the self in this space of otium.
This collaborative project is conceived and constructed by Au Hoi Lam and Chang Hoi Wood. Their dispositions and aesthetic values are merged into this Garden. Au uses handicraft to express ideas and emotions, embodying the relationship between the individual and the world. Chang focuses on the exploration of the emotional power of space through the articulation of geometry, and the innermost sentiments evolved and encountered in such experience. In this project, they explore further the themes of being as an individual: retrospection, contemplation, otium, vigilance, soothing and cultivation. Gardens allow viewers to stroll, introspect and reorganise oneself. Gardens connect the individuals to the world. Gardens craft landscapes on earth and in mind.
Artist talk, guided tours, workshops and reading group will be held during the exhibition period. All activities below will be conducted in Cantonese. Limited quota: please register online in advance.
Artist Talk
Aug 30, Saturday, 3pm – 4.30pm
Guided Tour (8 sessions)
Aug 31, Sunday Sep 13, Saturday
2pm – 2.30pm; 2.30pm – 3pm
3pm – 3.30pm; 3.30pm – 4pm
Workshop
Poetry and Symbol (Day)
Sep 6, Saturday, 10.30am – 12pm
Full Moon and Night Garden
Sep 7, Sunday, 8pm – 9.30pm
Poetry and Symbol (Night)
Sep 12, Friday, 7pm – 8.30pm
Garden, A Reading Group
Sep 14, Sunday, 2pm – 3.30pm
