A room with a view explores the aesthetics of disappearance through the lenses of six female artists based in Hong Kong. Curated by Carol Chow Pui Ha, a researcher and lecturer at the School of Journalism and Communication, Chinese University of Hong Kong, the exhibition takes as its point of departure Ackbar Abbas’ text Hong Kong: Culture and the Politics of Disappearance (1997), in which he describes how buildings and spaces in Hong Kong have come to signify what no longer exists. Spanning photography, video and installation, the works capture and reconstruct vanishing identities and spaces.
Exhibition Tour by Carol Chow Pui-Ha, Lau Wai and Yvonne Lo Yuen Man
20 Aug, 4pm to 5pm
Free. Registration required here.
Space, memory and Hong Kong identity via the lens of six female Hong Kong artists:
A session with Carol Chow Pui-Ha, Lau Wai and Yvonne Lo Yuen Man
20 Aug, 5:30pm to 7pm
Free. Registration required here.
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About the Artist
Law Yuk-Mui 羅玉梅 (b. 1982, Hong Kong) uses photography, video, text and sound to create multilayered representations of personal experiences. She graduated with a Bachelor of Art in 2006 and a Master of Fine Arts from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She is a co-founder of the Rooftop Institute and a member of the artist collective Selfish Wild.
Her work has been included in several group presentations, including the UK screening programme of Both Sides Now II—It Was the Best of Times, It Was the Worst of Times? (2015), curated by videoclub (UK) and Videotage, (Hong Kong); A Wedding, Para Site, Hong Kong (2011); Reversing Horizons: Artist Reflections of the Hong Kong Handover 10th Anniversary, Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA), Shanghai (2007); and aWay, 1A space, Hong Kong (2006). Her works are in the collections of the Philippe Charriol Foundation and Annie Wong Art Foundation, among others.