All posts tagged: Leung Chi Wo

Asia Art Archive 2024 Annual Fundraiser

Published by Artomity Magazine

aaa2024auction.com Asia Art Archive (AAA)’s 2024 Annual Fundraiser features an auction of over 50 works generously donated by artists, galleries, and individuals. This year’s fundraiser supports a crucial milestone for the organisation: building a premier digital archiving facility and training future archivists. These initiatives enable Asia Art Archive to provide free public access to resources on the histories of contemporary art in Asia. The works are now available for bidding online at www.aaa2024auction.com until 1 November, 10:30pm. This year’s auction features work by artists including Ruth Asawa, Rosamond Brown, Luis Chan, Chan Ting, Patricia Perez Eustaquio, Naiza Khan, Leung Chi Wo, Qiu Anxiong, Ayesha Sultana, Tsang Kin-Wah, Wang Wei, and more. Asia Art Archive enables free and open access to materials on the history of contemporary art in Asia through digitisation. As of today, AAA’s Research Collections contain more than 83,000 digital records. The fundraiser provides a vital source of funding to support AAA’s infrastructure in digitisation and advocacy for accessibility and custodianship. The establishment of a Digitisation Lab will advance AAA’s archival standards and nurture the …

Leung Chi Wo 梁志和

Published by Caroline Ha Thuc

For decades, Leung Chi Wo has been exploring the history and historical sites of Hong Kong, mixing archival material with photographs, videos, texts and multimedia installations. While his research-based practice brings forth the contradictions and complexities of historiography, it also injects fantasies, intimacy and emotion into collective narratives. Time, and how to embody its multiple dimensions, is the artist’s main subject, reflected in the title of his new solo exhibition, Past-Future Tense, opening in May 2023 at Blindspot Gallery. Caroline Ha Thuc: You have recently been to London to look for archives dealing with British plans for the future of Hong Kong after World War Two. What drove you to do so? Leung Chi Wo: I don’t really know why, but I always feel dragged to stories which read unreal but are true, or vice versa. And historical subjects are mostly such: they always claim to be real. They’re sort of far away and so close at the same time. And supposedly, I am part of a colonial history which has been erased and rewritten, …

Leung Chi Wo 梁志和

Published by Artomity Magazine

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 …

Yuk King Tan and Tobias Berger

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Artist Yuk King Tan and her husband, head of art at Tai Kwun Tobias Berger, talk about three of their favourite pieces in their collection. All of the art work we have tells stories about countries that we live in, our friends and our shared history. Some of the work makes the audience reconsider its belief structures, opening up different ways of contemplating the world. Art is such a unique and challenging form of communication. It’s important to have pieces that inform the way we work and also shift how we perceive our surroundings and community. Three really interesting, intelligent artists in Hong Kong right now are Ho Sin Tung, Nadim Abbas and Leung Chi Wo. Ho Sin Tung has a lyrical, idiosyncratic illustrative style that uses a sociological perspective to examine the way memory, aesthetics, literature and filmscapes can create and mythologise a changing territory like Hong Kong. Her drawing style, with maps and seating plans, uses a muted colour palette and distorted viewpoints to make work that is suggestive, beautiful and often quietly subversive. Your Name is Ferdinand (2010) is a delicate pencil and …

Leung Chi Wo

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By Caroline Ha Thuc there and thenness “Is History not simply that time when we were not born?” asks Roland Barthes, while looking at a photograph of his mother as a child, in his book Camera Lucida. Leung Chi Wo’s process is all too Barthesian: born in 1968, he focuses here on 1967, the year when the most violent riots in the post-Second World War history of Hong Kong took place. In the womb of his mother, the artist could not witness those events, and to recollect today occurrences that are lost forever, he can only rely on archives, found objects and stories. This exhibition could be perceived as a personal museum, another version of the Museum of the Lost project he and Sara Wong began in 2013, but one dedicated to 1967, a year he was not around but tries to reach for – despite the effects of time and subjectivity – through the power of photography and the socially constructed memory of the past. Fraser (2015) epitomises the artist’s practice and concerns. The installation features …