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
In her photography, Yvonne Lo Yuen Man 盧婉雯 (b.1957, Hong Kong) seeks to capture personal memories and responses to places where she has lived and visited. Her works use layering and collage to create multiple views of different locations. She is currently Assistant Professor at the Academy of Film, Hong Kong Baptist University, and holds a Master of Fine Arts from Texas Woman’s University.
In 2009, she held a solo exhibition at the Jockey Club Creative Arts Center (JCCAC), Hong Kong. She has participated in group exhibitions in Hong Kong and internationally at Art Gallery Le Logge, Arte Studio Ginestrelle, Assisi, Italy (2014); Urban Utopia: Deutsche Bank Collection Hong Kong, Deutsche Bank Hong Kong Branch (2011); Walk! Don’t Run: Demonstration Photography by 7 Artists, 1a Space, Hong Kong (2005); and Millennium Photo Project, Op Gallery, Hong Kong (2000).
She was co-curator of Hong Kong Photography Series 3: Beyond the Portrait (2012), an exhibition at the Heritage Museum of Hong Kong that explored contemporary approaches to portrait photography. Her works are in the collections of the Deutsche Bank, Heritage Museum of Hong Kong, and Hong Kong Museum of Art.