Mandala

EVENT DESCRIPTION

Sansiao Gallery HK and the exhibition organizer Chun Poon are delighted to present “Mandala,” a group exhibition featuring recent works by five Hong Kong-based artists: Sam Cheng, Jess Leung, Fung Chim, Victor Chu, and Damon Tong.

A mandala, which depicts a circle enclosing a square, symbolizes the universe in the Hindu and Buddhist religions. It is often used as a focus during meditation, signifying a spiritual journey through layers starting from the outer periphery to the inner core.  For instance, the creation of Tibetan sand mandala can take days or even weeks. Several monks collaborate to meticulously place colorful powdered sand onto a surface, while they pray and meditate.  Each grain of sand represents a blessing.

In parallel, the creation of an artwork – from ideation, sketches, research, trials, to eventual completion – can span weeks or months. Making an artwork could be a monotonous activity of applying repetitive techniques, especially when creating similar patterns layer by layer, section by section, and bit by bit, from nothing to a completed piece.

However, it is this process that holds meaning as the artist strives to maintain the course to the completion of the artwork.  In some sense, this journey from vision to fruition is also a spiritual one, during which the artist is in the zone deeply connected with the creation and dissociated from the rest of the world.