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Chow Chun Fai: Map of Amnesia

Chow Chun Fai: Map of Amnesia

13 September 2024 - 15 October 2024

Free

EVENT DESCRIPTION

Tang Contemporary Art is delighted to announce Hong Kong artist Chow Chun Fai’s solo exhibition “Map of Amnesia,” which will be held at the Central H Queen’s space from 13 Sep to 15 Oct. Encompassing works that perpetuate the artist’s practice of portraying Hong Kong’s memories and cinematography, presented are historic locations like the Mahjong House at Portland Street, Man Mo Temple, the Hong Kong Museum of Art, Mido Café, and Lin Heung Tea House. Meanwhile, cinema classics like As Tears Go By 旺角卡門A Moment of Romance 天若有情Chungking Express 重慶森林Comrades: Almost a Love Story 甜蜜蜜City War 義膽紅唇Infernal Affairs 無間道, and The Lucky Guy 行運一條龍 are also featured in the exhibition.

Created specifically for this exhibition, Chow’s latest canvas paintings are based on his photography done over the last 20 years when wandering around the city streets of Hong Kong. From there, Chow echoed his paintings with how Hong Kong films would depict particular scenes at particular times, evoking a sense of nostalgia for the collective memory in a romantic urbanity of the past, breaking the framework of time and expressing the artist’s thoughts and feelings about these locations over the past several to tens of years.

This exhibition will also feature a large-scale six-panel work titled Chicken and Duck Talk 1988 at Tai Po Man Mo Temple. The unique aspect of the artist’s collage work is that each panel has an independent figure within it, which also reflects the artist’s persistence in the work. The 14 brand new works on display capture many disappearing locations, overlapping impressions that are familiar to Hong Kongers and even tourists, in order to evoke the audience’s resonance and collective memories of the city. Each work contains countless details, from the fading neon lights, window grilles, and scaffolding, to every brick and tile, all of which are worth savoring.

In one of Chow’s latest works 1988 City War at the Carpark of Star Ferry Pier, we see the two protagonists Chow Yun Fat and Tik Lung confronting each other on the top storey of the carpark at Star Ferry Pier. The Bank of China Tower, which was still under construction at the time, could be seen in the background. It is the significance these two structures – the Star Ferry Pier and the Bank of China Tower – possess that intrigues Chow, of which both are indispensable to Hong Kong’s collective memory.

ABOUT THE ARTIST / ORGANISER

Chow Chun Fai graduated from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the Department of Fine Arts (BA and MFA). In 2012 he ran in the Hong Kong Legislative Council elections, for the Sports, Performing Arts, Culture and Publication constituency. Most recently his work has been featured in the exhibitions: A Mirage of a Shining City (Tang Contemporary Art Hong Kong 2023); Always After Now (Touch Gallery Hong Kong 2022); Portrait From Behind (Gallery Exit Hong Kong 2020); Chow Chun Fai (Eli Klein Gallery New York 2018); Everything Comes With an Expiry Date (Klein Sun Gallery New York 2016); Venice Meeting Point (Venice Biennale 2015); Hong Kong Eye (Saatchi Gallery London 2012), the Liverpool Biennial (Liverpool 2012).

Chow is a the recipient of the Grand Prize of the Hong Kong Arts Centre 30th Anniversary Awards, and the Sovereign Asian Art Prize.

Details

Start:
13 September 2024
End:
15 October 2024
Admission:
Free
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Tang Contemporary Art
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