“There was once a girl called Gretel. She lived in Amsterdam, right on top Hansel’s apartment. Gretel didn’t know it, but like her, Hansel also worked as a subcontractor deliverer for the postal service. One day, Gretel found herself holding a blue envelope in front of a pentagonal building she had never seen before …” […]
Tag Archives: 2016
Conceptually and geographically, Art Basel Hong Kong is a logical place for re-intervention of this project into the art world. As the most prominent art fair in the region, it is a highly visible event. The fair is equipped with the necessary media relations, and its curated sections emphasise the fair’s uniqueness. Having Five Tonnes of Homes and Other Understories and Proposal for a […]
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Mar
Mar
“Waste paper is like a forest. Paper recycles itself, generation after generation,” a man once told Zhang Yin, possibly the richest self-made woman in the world according to Forbes magazine in 2006, who earns her wealth from recycling cardboard waste. This film envisages the cardboard waste forest from within its leaves, revolving around the Filipino […]
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Mar
Mar
Five Tonnes of Homes and Other Understories (2016), fresh from the streets of Central, is in turn a re-intervention to the art world. Like thick books with drawn covers, the massive bales of cardboard waste in Five Tonnes of Homes and Other Understories are physical digests of their route. They contain physical traces of people, stakeholders that make […]
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Aug
Aug
Wall Drawings (2015-2016) is a series of ‘murals’ on the temporary ‘houses’ built by the Filipino domestic workers groups around Central, Hong Kong. This series began as simple decorative drawings that I drew while spending time with the groups in their temporary houses. The flowing lines resembling flowers and trees were intentionally simple and structural to […]
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Jan
Jan
Corpus (2015-2016) is a series of interventions into the recycling collection points around Central. These recycling collection points are like the river mouths of the waste cardboard route. They buy not only cardboard waste, but also other kinds of waste: metal, plastic, other paper. They then compress these waste into bales that they deliver to the […]