Invisible Hong Kong

Collage series in 2-person exhibition at Culture Club, Hong Kong.

Year: 2007

Team: Anca Matyiku

Publications:
Featured in the monograph: Tango With a Café: What is Culture Club?

“Invisible Hong Kong” is an attempt to reveal the unintentional and un-designed elements of the city that occur as accumulated build-ups of seemingly unimportant rituals. It is an exploration into the experiential dimension of urban space and its reflected existence within the inhabitant’s imagination. 

The series depicts fragmentary impressions of Hong Kong that emerge through a layering of collaged photographs and textured paint. The paintings celebrate the seemingly mundane elements and artifacts that unconsciously shape the character and experience of the city. They highlight the often overlooked, un-designed artifacts and corners where the evidence of culture grows and accumulates into unpredictable and often characteristic descriptions of the city.  Through this juxtaposition of these city fragments, the work engages the city as a series of soft constructs within the memory as it evokes impressions of an intangible, invisible, Hong Kong.

Joint exhibition:  alongside Nathan King’s photographic interpretation the same theme.