A ‘platform for community, conversation’: expanded Hong Kong art gallery’s debut show is a dialogue between two young artists about the distortion of memories
- Hong Kong’s Woaw Gallery open its new site with a show of ultra-contemporary art, which owner Kevin Poon says is in demand despite a dip in the economy
- Another gallery is championing young artists in its annual HKForeword show of fresh art school graduates’ work that gives ‘a glimpse of what’s happening now’
The thing about reminiscences is that they are never fully in focus. No matter how painful, exhilarating, or beautiful past moments were, they can never be recalled exactly.
This is what the two young artists behind a duo exhibition at Hong Kong’s Woaw Gallery, called “The Record, The Double, and The Singular”, are trying to represent.
Hongkonger Kitty Ng and South Korean artist Taedong Lee have both tapped into personal memories, aided by photographs, to recreate scenes from their childhoods while conveying the inevitable distortion of memories.
The show is really two solo exhibitions connected by the same theme, with Lee’s works being shown at Woaw’s new site at 3 Sun Street, in Hong Kong’s Wan Chai neighbourhood, while Ng’s are displayed at Woaw’s existing space down the road at No 5.
It is a dialogue between two Asian artists who grew up around the same time, says Kevin Poon, the 42-year-old founder of Woaw, who has held many exhibitions of young artists at his gallery since it was founded four years ago.
