I have been extremely busy in the past few weeks, therefore it has been nearly a month which I did not put anything new here. Anyhow, I am back.
Recently there was an exhibition which held in the Hong Kong Center The Jockey Club Gallery – John Fung ‘s photography exhibition One Square Foot. In this exhibition, Fung uses photograph as a medium to question about the environmental and spatial problem in Hong Kong.
Fung, rotates his camera towards the skyscrapers in this small city, and by going through these multi-exposing and overlapping of scenes, therefore a new perspective is shown. As Hong Kong is famous of her high population density, and many of the pictures of Hong Kong emphasis on her highly compacted city-scape. Landscape is rarely seen in Hong Kong, but city-scape. When one walks along the street in Hong Kong, the sky is being torn into fragments. In another words, the skyscrapers in Hong Kong are actually restructuring our vision of naturalness. To the people who live in this small city, looking up to the sky is no longer an unlimited visual experience; instead, it traps, restrains and compresses their perception. And in the past decade, in order to maximize the use of lands and the profits of the developers, screen buildings (or later people calls it Partiperty) were built in everywhere in Hong Kong. These buildings further deepen the problem towards environmental pollution.
Recently there was an exhibition which held in the Hong Kong Center The Jockey Club Gallery – John Fung ‘s photography exhibition One Square Foot. In this exhibition, Fung uses photograph as a medium to question about the environmental and spatial problem in Hong Kong.
Fung, rotates his camera towards the skyscrapers in this small city, and by going through these multi-exposing and overlapping of scenes, therefore a new perspective is shown. As Hong Kong is famous of her high population density, and many of the pictures of Hong Kong emphasis on her highly compacted city-scape. Landscape is rarely seen in Hong Kong, but city-scape. When one walks along the street in Hong Kong, the sky is being torn into fragments. In another words, the skyscrapers in Hong Kong are actually restructuring our vision of naturalness. To the people who live in this small city, looking up to the sky is no longer an unlimited visual experience; instead, it traps, restrains and compresses their perception. And in the past decade, in order to maximize the use of lands and the profits of the developers, screen buildings (or later people calls it Partiperty) were built in everywhere in Hong Kong. These buildings further deepen the problem towards environmental pollution.
This is our sky, this is our city; we already forgot the moral of the tower of Babel.
One Square Foot photography by John Fung
26th Feb - 31st Mar2009
The Jockey Club Gallery, Hong Kong Art Center
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