Opening Tour: "Sweet Well" and "Untold Stories of Hong Kong"【HKIDAF 2023】Kairos Arts Development Company Limited
Roaming the Stories of the Story Tellers
Roam around the storytelling world of two artists, putting on a different lens to read the stories at the same time resonate with your own.
Exhibitions include:
"Sweet Well"
The name of the exhibition "Sweet Well" comes from the little story in Tolstoy's "The Confession". The story and its extension have profoundly influenced my worldview and the content of creations. On the basis of this story, the works in this exhibition revolve around existentialism and nihilism, showing the real world which hides behind reality and the madness in it.
We are chained, but looking for the way of freedom; although like Sisyphus, we still think about the meaning of existence. The absurd world doesn’t represent despair, but freedom. I hope viewers can find sobriety and freedom from absurdity.
https://art-mate.net/en/doc/68418
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"Untold Stories of Hong Kong"
The untold stories of some little-known elderly Hong Kong people.
In this city that never sleeps, there’s always something happening, tales waiting to be told. We often hear on the news what happens to important famous people, their marriages, divorces and their lavish lifestyles. What about the stories that we don’t hear? Do we let those stories fade into the nether with whom the stories belong?
Rarely do we hear about the struggles of an old lady who goes along the streets collecting cardboard boxes to provide for herself with her two own hands. Nor do we hear about an old man who wants to rebuild a temple as it was a safe haven for him during the Second World War. The aim of this exhibition is to share some of the stories and life lessons from a few of Hong Kong’s older generation.
Why the elderly? Because they’ve lived longer, seen more and have more life experience.
https://www.art-mate.net/en/doc/68413
More Details: https://issuu.com/hkiaf/docs/booklet_12072023
- Language: Cantonese and English.
- Suitable for all ages.
- Artworks are available for sale.
- If you have any inquiries about the artwork, please contact the artist directly.
