Angela Yuen Hong Kong, b. 1991

With a long fascination with all things local, Yuen uses ready-made objects and manufactured plastic toys to create playful three-dimensional sculptures that cast colored shadows resembling the Hong Kong skyline. This practice has become the centre of her artistic creation since 2014. In her first major solo exhibition, Yuen continues to explore elements that represent Hong Kong’s culture: ice-cream street vendor, rickshaw, sampan boat, and the demolished Queen’s pier can be seen on Yuen’s new wall hanging pieces. Like a still frame from an old Hong Kong movie, her work brings audiences back in time to witness some of the faded yet most significant cultural elements of Hong Kong. Her works are cheerful with a sense of playfulness, incorporating old-fashioned plastic objects such as plastic rulers, stencils, hair curlers, toy soldiers, rubber duckscapsule toys, tea party sets, and floral beads that occupied the surface. When strategically placed lights are shined, thereby transforming these ready-made objects into imaginative silhouette stories. Every object is carefully choreographed, combining vastly coloured shadows to produce unexpected results.