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Artwork Title: Echoes of Space · Time — The Pearl of the Orient
Field Notes: Micro-lives Embedded in Everyday Spaces
Year: 2026
Materials: Mixed media
While the Echoes of Time and Space series has been exhibited multiple times across the Chinese Mainland, this particular artwork is being exhibited in Hong Kong for the first time. Each iteration incorporates distinctive elements from different locations, creating a unique version. For this exhibition, the artist visited Hong Kong in person to collect a wide range of urban sound elements, including the distinctive "ding‑ding" of trams, announcements of local transit, the melody of local ice‑cream truck, the clamour of street markets and local children’s songs, transforming them into an integral part of the artwork.
This piece was inspired by the artist’s childhood memory of playing with reflections in mirrors. As visitors enter the gallery, they feel as if they are submerged beneath the waters of Victoria Harbour, looking up while manipulating light from a mirrored installation, tracing time and space through the ripples on the water surface. The surrounding space is suffused with a subtle scent and the sounds of the city, turning it into both a physical environment and a temporal expression of history, where different times and spaces overlap, evoking distinctive everyday memories. In the ecology of everyday space, memory and nostalgia often transcend the currents of history.
Field Notes: Micro-lives Embedded in Everyday Spaces
Year: 2026
Materials: Mixed media
While the Echoes of Time and Space series has been exhibited multiple times across the Chinese Mainland, this particular artwork is being exhibited in Hong Kong for the first time. Each iteration incorporates distinctive elements from different locations, creating a unique version. For this exhibition, the artist visited Hong Kong in person to collect a wide range of urban sound elements, including the distinctive "ding‑ding" of trams, announcements of local transit, the melody of local ice‑cream truck, the clamour of street markets and local children’s songs, transforming them into an integral part of the artwork.
This piece was inspired by the artist’s childhood memory of playing with reflections in mirrors. As visitors enter the gallery, they feel as if they are submerged beneath the waters of Victoria Harbour, looking up while manipulating light from a mirrored installation, tracing time and space through the ripples on the water surface. The surrounding space is suffused with a subtle scent and the sounds of the city, turning it into both a physical environment and a temporal expression of history, where different times and spaces overlap, evoking distinctive everyday memories. In the ecology of everyday space, memory and nostalgia often transcend the currents of history.