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    "(Art)Work from Home" was a group exhibition of 4 young Hong Kong artists: Hector Chan, Cheung Tsz Hin, Ling Pui Sze and Mindy Lui Yan Yi. This exhibition unfolds the artistic practice of a certain generations response to the ever-changing outside world, a group which has often been described as "Otaku" () : loves staying home, prefers solitary to social activities, yet full of imagination and creativity. Each artist, who steps back from the crowd but still closely connects to our time, explores the possibilities and boundaries in the aesthetic values of daily objects, their surroundings and living experiences, hence giving birth to an endless dialogue in new visual languages. Taking part in the 4th edition of Central West HK x Salvatore Ferragamo, this exhibition opened on 13th March, 2021 and closed on 24 April, 2021. 

    Hector Chan’s “The Scenes” is a series of paintings that represents the recollection of images and rediscovers the desire of seeing by capturing iconic scenes from movie classics. His paintings are fluid-like cinematic scenes that excites the viewer’s eye with expressive brushstrokes and coloursChan dedicates his artistic practice to the search in new ways in adapting paintings to an image-flooding era. Choosing to paint on pleather, he sets his heart on fluent mark making with less friction when compared to the surfaces of traditional medium like canvases or wood, and as a result, a wider spectrum of gesture can be formed. In his If Van Gogh series, Chan invents a little piece of art history relating to the popular painter Vincent van Gogh with a strong sense of humour and playfulness. For instance, in the work “Kam (1895)”, Chan paints the portrait of the female lead character from the Hong Kong movie Golden Chicken to suggest if a tragedy could have been altered by raising the question “what if Van Gogh met and fell in love with a different prostitute?” 


    The rural landscape of the New Territories is a recurrent focus in Cheung Tsz Hin’s paintingsat times accompanied by a vague figure of a child’s back or his side, who is either looking awayhiding behind an abandoned sofa, or covering his head with a pillow in a bed of flowers. His face cannot be seen directly but a strong sense of intimacy and inseparability can be felt through the gloomy air and thin layers of paint. Cheung describes his works as very personal, while combining his past memories with the present scenery of the places where he was brought up and belongshence giving voice to peace and harmonyThere is something uncertain and fragilefull of solitude in the breeze of his light colours and in the passing of time, that keeps reminding his audience of their own rootsWhen it comes to a year living under the pandemic, more of his emphasis has shifted towards observing family

    sleeping

    Cheung Tsz Hin

    windows

    Cheung Tsz Hin

    watering

    Cheung Tsz Hin

    house on mountain

    Cheung Tsz Hin

    scenery during the trip

    Cheung Tsz Hin

    plants

    Cheung Tsz Hin

    wood

    Cheung Tsz Hin

    abandoned chair

    Cheung Tsz Hin

    roof

    Cheung Tsz Hin

    Reactionary 8

    Ling Pui Sze

    Reactionary 7

    Ling Pui Sze

    Route 2

    Ling Pui Sze

    Route 1

    Ling Pui Sze

    Form 2

    Ling Pui Sze

    Form 5

    Ling Pui Sze

    Kam (1895)

    Hector Chan

    Form 3

    Ling Pui Sze

    Route 3.1

    Ling Pui Sze

    Route 3.2

    Ling Pui Sze

    Route 3.3

    Ling Pui Sze

    Mindy Lui Yan Yi