信報 Hong Kong Economic Journal

HK01 April 8, 2016

梁志和、黃志恆：遺失在影像裡的空間與經歷

梁志和、黃志恆：遺失在影像裡的空間與經歷
阮蔚藍

Contemporary art in Hong Kong by Caroline Ha Thuc

Contemporary art in Hong Kong by Caroline Ha Thuc

Monopol

Monopol is a Berlin-based art magazine. Culture(s) of Copy where I took part with Sara in Edith-Ruß-Haus für Medienkunst in Oldenburg got featured in it.

Reference 1978-1994-2010

A new collaborative work by Leung Chi Wo + Sara Wong as our contribution to "Lui Chun Kwong. You Are Here, I Am Not. From Ho Siu Kee to Kong Chun Hei", opening next Saturday at Osage Kwun Tong.

Lui Chun Kwong, Back Shadowing, oil on canvas, 130x96cm, 1978

The second piece of work Lui had produced ever since he returned from London in 1994, untitled and never exhibited.

The back of the 1994 piece. He signed on it again recently before we took it to "collaborate". We added the inner angled- and exterior frames, ribbon and stamp with reference to the 1978 piece.

Mysterious housewife

Now hanged in the Goethe Institut, my collaboration with Sara Wong consists of a large new photograph and a book of Tokyo of the 1950s. The very small back figure of a typical housewife at the centre of a photo from the book has become the inspiration of the large print. Both should be visually corresponding to each other.
However a friend just told me he saw that work 2 weeks ago for the first time just as seen above. But recently he went to the gallery again and looked at the work. He just couldn't find the housewife in the old photograph. We checked it today and nothing has changed. It's really mysterious....

She was lost in the past and we found her today.

Site-specific installation (conceptual illustration above) by Leung Chi Wo & Sara Wong, vinyl sticker on glass, Yaguchinowatashi Station, Tamagawa Line, Tokyo, 2010

Shopping street at Yaguchinowatashi (right next to the station), Tokyo, 1955

Opening programme, Tamagawa Art Line Project 2010