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26 February - 9 March 2018
Run Run Shaw Tower, Centenial Campus, University of Hong Kong
I collaborated with illustrator Vicki Wong on a work exhibited in Poetic Journeys in Foreign Lands in a tribute to the late Hong Kong poet Leung Ping Kwan (Yasi), co-organised by Read Cycling, HKU General Education Unit, Faculty of Arts and Department of Comparative Literature.
Inspired by Yasi's alienated descriptions of a domestic room in Paper Cut-outs, Vicki and I conceptualised a creative experiment on displacement and trespass. We wrote and exchanged a passage about our own room, and created an artwork based on each other's texts. By shifting space and medium, we reached for the foreign lands in Yasi's poetic language, at once imagining and projecting ourselves onto a new environment.
I created a collage out of printed matter, origami and a film ticket stub.
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This idea of having self-introspection through others was a recurring element in many of the featured artworks. [...]
The pair took inspirations for their artworks from Yasi’s novel Paper Cut-outs (1977), which contained the line: “A room like this is like a foreign land to me.” For the duo, although they used personal language to describe spaces as intimate as their bedrooms, these spaces became estranged when being reinterpreted by others.
“We described our rooms using texts, and then we used another visual medium — be it illustrating or putting together paper scraps — to represent each other’s writings. It somehow felt like understanding a foreign land,” Cheung said.
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Koel Chu for /SCENE/
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另外兩名參加者張麗心、黃穎琪像「交換日記」般創作出《這樣的房間對我來說像是異鄉》。兩人先寫一段短文，形容她們的房間，再跟隨對方文本來創作。靈感取於也斯小說《剪紙》第一章，女主角喬的房間有如「謎樣的立方體，讓『我』潛進她神秘的思想世界」。
如此一來，明明是自己房間，卻可能認不出來，徘徊熟悉與陌生情懷。
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《明報》劉彤茵
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