The Academy of Visual Arts of Hong Kong Baptist University aims at educating independent and creative individuals, they are one of the best art school in Hong Kong. I went to this graduation show when I was back in Hong Kong in 2014
The exhibition is located in an underground shopping mall inside the MTR stations (tube in HK) so I did not plan to visit this exhibition but was making my way along the passageways between MTR stations. This is a very clever method to increase diverse audiences for their diverse range of exhibition.
He/She is
Markers on canvas
10cmx10cm (250pcs)
CHANG Tsz Hin
The first art work that caught my eye were these heads on canvas. When I walked closer to the canvas, I see a lot of familiar faces of celebrities and TV characters, drawn in animated style with some famous slogans or lines they have said. This is very enjoyable to find out how many faces I could recognise and bring up memories of these characters.
Appearances help recognise the identities of person due to their unique facial features. In facts, it is undependable and indefinite, as identities change in different situations. There is a time when we encounter a person , who gives us a sense of familiarity, yet we are unable to recap his or her identity.
This art work allowed me an opportunity to experience the feeling of familiarity and to amaze the memorial ability of human's brain. I really like this concept which is very locally created and 'only Hong Kong people will understand'. This raises my sense of belonging in my own country and treasure our shared-memory and experience. I hope to create art-work like him that can communicate with audience efficiently. If I want to achieve the similar effect in the England, I need to come up with some international elements that nearly everyone because I did not spend my childhood in this country and lack of common experience.
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