Hong Kong, July 2 – July 30, 2016, https://www.facebook.com/amspacehk/
Three artists, showing three works. Chen Tong 陳侗showing crude quick drawings of Hong Kong’s urban corners, conceptually – allegedly – held together by a reference to a novel by Alain Robbe-Grillet. Szelit Cheung 張施烈 showing very small and delicate pencil drawings – copies of photographs of persons, all composed according to the typical amateur family photographic language of putting a beloved person in the central space of the frame. Fiona Wong 黃麗貞 showing a couple of her ceramic objects, something between an oversized rice bowl and a sculptural representation of a circular mountain silhouette, covered with a delicately colored glaze.
In the gallery space, the works unfortunately remained separate. If any relationships existed, they were too hard to decipher. The exhibition statement stayed equally hazy. As such, even the title seemed to refer to the lowest common denominator – some loose relationship of the artists to Hong Kong – which was however hard identify in the constellation of works beyond some vague notions of urban space, celluloid nostalgia and identity questioning.
