Author: Tiffany Leung

Leung Chi Wo 梁志和

Published by Tiffany Leung

For Leung Chi Wo, to make sense of the present is to rediscover the past. Born in Hong Kong in 1968, a turning point during the city’s colonial period, after large-scale riots broke out the year before, the artist has always been fascinated by the development of its sociopolitical framework. He has spent more than two decades, both individually and with long-term collaborator Sara Wong, exploring the complex relationship between then and now, uncovering hidden narratives from the past and recontextualising them with alternative understandings of subjectivity. Also central to Leung’s practice are notions of time and perception, navigated through the power of photography and deconstruction of memories. Exhibited extensively across the world, Leung’s work ranges from photography and video to text, performance and site-specific installation. From September to December, Wong and Leung are undertaking a residency with the Delfina Foundation in London to continue developing their ongoing project Museum of the Lost. A collection of images from newspapers, magazines, brochures and other publications dating from the 1930s onwards, the project foregrounds anonymous people who …

Andrew Luk 陸浩明

Published by Tiffany Leung

A few years ago, Hong Kong artist Andrew Luk stumbled across Abney Park Cemetery during a visit to London. He was immediately drawn to its sense of autonomy, as though detached from the surrounding city life. Shrouded by lofty trees and brick walls, the cemetery embraces a different temporal experience, embodied by a curious mixture of tipping gravestones, decaying statues and a profusion of organic growth. Originally built to alleviate the overcrowding of graveyards during the Victorian era, the garden cemetery became defunct in the 1970s after its management went bankrupt. Further neglect in the years since has led to its evolution into the ecological sanctuary that it is today. Over the course of his two-month residency at London’s Delfina Foundation this summer, Luk returned to the cemetery and continued his exploration. Reflecting on this quality of otherness, he draws on Michel Foucault’s concept of “heterotopia” and disciplines such as garden studies and cemetery management to further understand the cemetery’s historical significance and present circumstances. Tiffany Leung: You first came across Abney Park Cemetery a …