Cityscape Resolution – Hong Kong by YOSHIROTTEN – Part 2

EVENT DESCRIPTION

Making its way from Tai Hang to Central, the cultural destination THE SHOPHOUSE opens its first-ever pop-up experience at BELOWGROUND, featuring Part 2 of the ‘CITYSCAPE RESOLUTION’ by Japanese artist YOSHIROTTEN in collaboration with Hong Kong photographer Wing Shya.

For the second iteration of ‘CITYSCAPE RESOLUTION,’ the artist YOSHIROTTEN expands on the recreation of Wing Shya’s iconic photographs, presenting 10 collaborative prints. This unique union of the 2 creative minds offers a fresh perspective and a new visual representation of both artists’ styles of work.

According to YOSHIROTTEN, Wing Shya’s photography captures Hong Kong as “a collection of human emotions rather than the actual scenes of the city.” By entering into the instantaneous world of photography, in the process of cutting images and expanding their resolution, the emotions of the objects flow into a strange sense of reality, like a city that YOSHIROTTEN had never visited. YOSHIROTTEN reconstructs and collages Wing Shya’s images using only the graphic motifs that appear by picking up the resolution, unveiling the primordial fragments of that particular moment in time.

Exclusively available at BELOWGROUND, the pop-up experience by THE SHOPHOUSE also presents ‘otherthings’, which includes 6 limited run photo print t-shirts and a special issue of the cult magazine WERK No. 29 dedicated to featuring the works of YOSHIROTTEN and his reinterpretation of photographs by legendary image-makers, Daido Moriyama and Wing Shya. WERK Creative Director Theseus Chan employs his trademark design language of utilizing printed form and elevating it to a highly collectible art object, a craft that is quickly becoming a rarity in the modern age.