Bowie Lee: Let Go

EVENT DESCRIPTION

From studying landscapes to stones, local artist Bowie Lee discovered that everyone has their own world in their hearts, and began to use the ideology of landscapes to present the inner worlds of different people through her art works.

Collecting stones and stories, she explore our relationship with space and our existence through geological research of this city. During this process, she learned not to be attached, but to follow the cycle of our life, the world, and nature.

That’s a tough life lesson – how do you let go of someone or something you love?
She discovered that the people we love never leave us. Because they, like us, coexist with the vast cycle of heaven and earth.

Whether you have to be sad or not, you have to let it go; whether you have resentment or not, you have to let it go. Letting go is not forgetting, but acknowledging everything it has affected you, and moving on in the cyclical rhythm of the universe.

Bowie hopes that this exhibition will allow visitors to let go of the people and things you want to let go in this art space at the end of 2022, and also experience the stories that others have let go through artworks.

Everyone can bring a stone or a small object to represent what they can’t let go during the exhibition, and leave it in Cabinet of Stories, which will become one of the stories in the exhibition. If you can, we’d love you to share the story behind the stone or small object with Bowie, and in return, she’ll turn your story into a one-of-a-kind circular piece of art.

Let Go is not just an exhibition, but more like an exchange of stories and art. Bowie wants to be the middleman, connecting visitors and stones.

ABOUT THE ARTIST / ORGANISER

What began as a personal journey of exploring identities and landscape art was unraveled
into an idiosyncratic devotion to the fascinating philosophies in Fine Art.

As an independent artist and experienced art educator in Hong Kong, I have participated in many art exhibitions and collaborations. My studio practice is rooted in an exploration of our existence, and hence the relationship between our bodily movements and spaces. As I expand my practice into multidisciplinary art, I was drawn strongly to the complexity of time and space conjunctions, referencing from history, geology, cartography, anthropology, and psychoanalysis.
Under the influence of Georges Perec, I started to have intimate emotions about the space and time we are living in.

In the discipline of Anni Alber's weaving practices, I was intrigued by the notion of going "Under" and "Over".

By studying the theories by Hito Steryl, I was inspired to look at spaces with different perspectives and orientations.

My practice is all about processes, in the metaphor of Allan Kaprow's spontaneity in the "happenings" and Agnes Martin's purity in "repetitions".

The meaning of map and grid, the practice of weaving, and the operations of mark-making have expanded my investigation about the architectural dominion over the surface and space, resonating with personal and collective memories, particularly in this concrete jungled city, our “Home” Kong. In order to reclaim the spaces we exist, I often respond to my surroundings through the act of making, researching, and hence reciprocating my work with the happenings in the cultural aspect.

In the constancy of life and fate, the metaphor of portraying “our world” involves repetitions of movements. It circulates the physicality stirs up the materiality, and hence reflects the correspondence narratives between our skin, and the skin of “our world”.