18th Venice Architecture Biennale
Excited to feature my work “Unsettled Ground 未定之境” at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition–La Biennale di Venezia as part of the Hong Kong pavilion, titled “Transformative Hong Kong”.
Responding to Lesley Lokko’s theme “The Laboratory of the Future” and the pavilion’s focus on Hong Kong’s future with mega projects such as the Northern Metropolis, the two-channel video features a series of images drawn from Hong Kong’s Northern borderlands to Chinese construction sites across the African continent – places undergoing dramatic change that I have spent years exploring and documenting.
Photographs unfold like a visual poem, interwoven with personal reflections and found objects scavenged from demolished villages. These fragments are paired together on a folding screen, transcending familiar boundaries to create new connections between development, destruction, memory, time, boundaries, and displacement that reconsider histories beyond the lens of colonialism.
An imagined landscape emerges, portraying the erasure of places and the creation of an abstract future still unfolding.
Transformative Hong Kong
Arsenale, Campo della Tana, Castello 2126, Venice, Italy
May 20 – November 26, 2023
Hong Kong International Photo Festival 2024
Excited to present new work from the series “Searching for Poon” at the 2024 Hong Kong International Photo Festival. Thank you Blues Wong and Carol Chow for including me among fifteen artists showcasing portfolios about notions of ‘home’.
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When my grandmother began losing her memory, her photographs became clues to a history I never knew. I used her images to trace her journey from mainland China into Hong Kong, imagining around the fragments of her life. In the absence of her past, I became the architect of her memories.
Measuring from memory, I began building places that no longer existed, but might still linger in her fading mind. Memories are clarified back into existence, lying somewhere between reality and my recollections of it, in the details of a photograph and spaces beyond. As her reality and my imagination converge, our bond strengthens, bridging histories across generations and places.
Date 日期: 2024.11.08-12.08 (11:00-20:00 Mon-Sun)
Venue 場地: Hong Kong Arts Centre 香港藝術中心
hkipf.org.hk
MoMA x Doctalks
Had a great time sharing my work “Black Mountain, Red Earth” with Doctalks x MoMA — an amazing forum for academic peers with a focus on architectural history and theory. Thank you @doctalks___ @chan.carson and @_meardley from Princeton University for responding.
“Black Mountain, Red Earth” chronicles the desolation of mining towns in the Zambian Copperbelt and the emergence of multinational frontier towns in western Zambia. Following the crash of global copper prices in the 1990s, this mineral-rich region underwent significant changes as state-run mines were sold to multinational mining conglomerates. This privatization resulted in drastic cuts to welfare and funding for urban development, profoundly changing the lives of those who work and live there.
The project focuses on two distinct regions: “Black Mountain” portrays the devastating effects of privatization through the lens of miners and their livelihoods in the Zambian Copperbelt; “Red Earth” explores the emerging frontier towns in western Zambia, where multinational companies are vying for a share of Africa’s vast copper reserves.
Through interviews and photography, these two chapters provide a comparative portrayal between a place left behind by globalization and another borne by it, between the shadows of Zambia’s colonial legacy and the emergence of a global Africa shaped by competing multinational interests. These narratives foreshadow a broader landscape intertwined by global markets and forces.
Searching for Poon at Printed Matter
Thank you Printed Matter for selling Searching for Poon
Working Assumptions Grant
Deepest thanks to @WorkingAssumptions for the generous grant which allows me to continue the work of uncovering and reconstructing my grandmother’s lost memories.
Also excited to work with my fellow grantees whose works revolve around notions of family and home. Alicia Vera (@aliciavera), Debe Arlook (@debearlook), Devin Allen (@bydvnlln), Nolan Trowe (@nolantrowe, @steadymantainin), Preston Gannaway (@pgannawayphoto), Terra Fondriest (@terrafondriest), and Trent Davis Bailey (@trentdavisbailey).
https://www.workingassumptions.org/grants
For All That Breathes on Earth
It was a real joy photographing the only U.S. project by Korea’s pioneering first-generation landscape architect, Jung Youngsun. I ended up spending days on site, getting to know the community and witnessing the landscape transform through the changing light of day and night, just as the leaves were falling with the approach of winter. Her landscapes feel more like an extension of nature than a design, blending seamlessly with the community of monks and practitioners who call the place home.
Thank you Curator @jihoinim @hyoeunkim_ and @itshyoyeonkim for including these photos in Jung Youngsun's enormous retrospective at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art.
Space on Paper: Jimei x Arles
Thank you @threeshadows_official for selecting “New Territories” as part of Space on Paper Jimei x Arles Chinese Contemporary Photobook Exhibition.
Thank you Li Zijiang, @threeshadows_official @jimei_arles @hujiawenhjw for the opportunity to participate in Xiamen. Such an impressive show with so much to see!
Curated by Li Zijian
2023.12.15-2024.1.21
JIMEI ART CENTRE, Jimei District, Xiamen（厦门市集美区集美艺术中心）
Sam iz Dat: Rehearsal Art Book Fair
Excited to showcase “New Territories” along with 240 other titles of curated Sam iz Dat: (independent/underground) publications by Chinese-speaking Creators as part of Rehearsal Art Book Fair. Presented in the US for the very first time, this book fair seeks to explore and present the essence of independent art and literary publishing within highly capitalized and/or censored contexts.
Exhibition:
Sep 15 and 16, 2023 in New York City
University Settlement (184 Eldridge st, new york)
rehearsalartbookfair.org/linktree
Center for Book Arts
Congratulations to @centerforbookarts on its 50 years anniversary! Glad to be a part of this legendary community, the first of its kind in the US dedicated to contemporary interpretations of the book arts. I have learned so much from the their workshops and critiques, including Richard Minsky’s “Book Art Critique Workshop” and group crit with Robbin Ami Silverberg and other critics.
Also an honor to participate in “Hello Thank You Come In: 50th Anniversary Members Exhibition”, featuring artists’ books by current CBA members which “make use of cloth, found objects, and archival materials that challenge —and honor—the form of the book.”
Exhibition: January 18 - April 30, 2024
28 West 27th St, 3rd Fl New York
NOWNESS
My conversation with NOWNESS featured online (link below) and upcoming hardcopy.
We revisit my early fieldwork in Africa to my recent work centered around my grandmother - discussing how my work explores the fluidity of boundaries - from territorial separation to identity and memory.
Thank you to the amazing @lesleytang_ , Selina Liu for putting this thoughtful piece together.
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/ACYIHQojzvgTpMtosJN4oA
CICA Visual Culture
Featured Artists 참여작가:Justin Hui, Minyoung Kang(강민영), Eli Kessler, Minu Kim (김민우), Joella Kiu, Eric T. Kunsman, Wenwen Liu, Alex Manea, Maria Petroff, Miki SASAKI, Jinsik Shin (신진식), Rio Ahn ( 안리오), Kyle Yip, Junghye Yun (윤정혜)
https://cicamuseum.com/visual-culture-2022/
HKIPF Sattelite Exhibitions 2022
Exploring different ways of using photography: a talk with HKIPF 2022 satellite exhibitors
This year's HKIPF satellite exhibitors have explored using photography in their own unique ways.
From photography as personal expression and healing, raising awareness to current social issues and image power dynamics, to developing relationships and community engagement, we are delighted to have all 6 artists with us for this talk together.
They will be sharing their personal journey and their ways of using photography followed by a discussion on what photography may become in the future.
Image Makers of Satellite Exhibitions 2022 will join this talk.
Michelle Chan Wan Chee @little.rice
Itit Cheung @ititcheung
Jessica Fu @jessicafu.info
Justin Hui @jmyhui
Dion Leung @dion17eung
Kaho Albert Yu @kaho.albert.yu
This talk will be moderated by Marty. @eye_boogers
Being Hong Kong
Thrilled to contribute to @beinghongkong and their latest issue on the New Territories, “Mapping the Old New World”. I’m truly impressed by the research, design, and editing by the team to offer one of the most insightful surveys on the history and future of the New Territories.
In my section “RE-Seek”, we dive deeper into the topic of boundaries and their roles in shaping Hong Kong identity. How can photography raise various questions about land, identity, and home beyond the colonial gaze of Hong Kong?
https://shop.beinghongkong.com/products/beinghk-autumn2023
Being Hong Kong
Photographs of Cho Yiu Chuen Public Housing featured in 2024 Autumn Being Hong Kong “Housing, Homing”
Framing Territories
December 2 from 9:00 - 10:00PM at Kubrick
Framing Territories
The decisive moment emerges from the instantaneous connection between the subject and the object. Such simultaneous coalition re-frames memories, presence and imagination – a moment in time that blurs the boundaries among past, present and future.
Bringing together photographic works and publications of Justin Hui, Lau Chi Chung and Erica T., “Framing Territories” (conducted mostly in Cantonese) explores the ambiguity and dynamics among notions of documentation and imagination, personal and collective experiences, here and beyond.
This event will be moderated by programme curator Christine Lee.
Address: Kubrick Cafe, 45 Tung Kun St, 10 Yau Ma Tei