2022 /30-day Y-Loft artist-in-residency program, Youth Square, Hong Kong
香港野花 / 蔓長春花
Hong Kong Wildflowers / Periwinkle
香港野花 / 龍船花
Hong Kong Wildflowers / Chinese ixora
2022 / RE · COUNT
Exhibition: Repetition and Encounter
Exhibition detail: MACAH VIS511 Curatorial Project Curated by Chan Tsz Kwan, Li Sin Tung Sharyn, Li Wing Huen Vicky, Li Zixiao Vicky Public Programme Produced by Wang Meiting Artists: Elva Lai, June Wong, Kwing Wing Poon, Marcos Vidal Font, Mediha Ting, Wai Kit Lam Date: 13-21 August 2022 Time: 12:00-19:00 Venue: L5-23 Unit Gallery, Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre (JCCAC), Shek Kip Mei Opening Ceremony: 3pm, 13 August 2022 https://www.ln.edu.hk/visual/eng/re·count Elva Lai: Thank You Card https://rubywongglo.wixsite.com/recount/thankyou-card IG ：Re-count Website：rubywongglo.wixsite.com/recount/ |
The upcoming exhibition “Re · Count” (Repetition and Encounter) explores the dual concept of repetition and encounter in daily routines. In a wide range of art mediums such as paintings, video images and installations, the exhibition will represent artworks of 4 Hong Kong artists Elva Lai, June Wong, Kwing Wing Poon (Water), Mediha Ting, and the artist group of Marcos Vidal Font and Wai Kit Lam, who are envisioned to transform arts into an interactive medium to present daily encounters, so as to provide visitors a mental stimulation for the re-discovery of an infinite, new oneself from their daily routines.
Here, you are invited to recall your past memories of encountering and recognise the true value and beauty amid the hustling world. 藝術展覽—--《重·遇》將展出五組共六位藝術家的作品，涵蓋多個創作媒介包括繪畫、錄像和裝置等。參展藝術家賴明珠、黃小玲、潘炯榮 （水禾田）、 Marcos Vidal Font 、定光琴和林慧潔以日常生活中的相遇為靈感，以藝術創作展現對周遭人與物的反思。 在這一段名為「重遇」的藝術旅程，誠邀各參觀者回顧自己過往的相遇，與真實卻陌生的自己重逢，並在這個世界裡營營役役地生活的同時，能夠找到自己真正的價值。 |
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Artist Book: EMOTION DICTIONARY
EMOTION DICTIONARY is self-published simultaneously with the exhibition of the same name. The EMOTION DICTIONARY is an English-Chinese dictionary that collects and documents English words that describe human emotions. These words are added as illustrations in tangent with the daily photos taken of travellers. With each photo is an added example sentences that hide the traveller's own words found in dialogues between refugees and the travellers, and diary entries of the traveller. |
Emotion Dictionary is available for sale at：
art and culture outreach 14/F, Foo Tak Building,365-367 Hennessy Road, Wan Chai Book B (sold out) Shop 111, The Mills, 45 Pak Tin Par Street Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong |
Supported by:
Hong Kong Arts Development Council fully supports freedom of artistic expression. The views and opinions expressed in this project do not represent the stand of the Council.
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City Magazine
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A new interview with the City Magazine 號外 is out now! It’s available now at all 7-11 & Circle K convenience store in Hong Kong!
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EMOTION DICTIONARY
Conceived by Elva Lai 賴明珠 EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Jenny Lai PROOFREADING Vincent Feng Jenny Lai GRAPHIC DESIGN Elva Lai PRINT RUN 100 PRINTED IN HONG KONG HK$200 FOR MORE www.thisiselva.com |
Artist Book: EMOTION DICTIONARY
EMOTION DICTIONARY is self-published simultaneously with the exhibition of the same name. The EMOTION DICTIONARY is an English-Chinese dictionary that collects and documents English words that describe human emotions. These words are added as illustrations in tangent with the daily photos taken of travellers. With each photo is an added example sentences that hide the traveller's own words found in dialogues between refugees and the travellers, and diary entries of the traveller. Emotion Dictionary is available for sale at：
art and culture outreach 14/F, Foo Tak Building,365-367 Hennessy Road, Wan Chai Book B (sold out) Shop 111, The Mills, 45 Pak Tin Par Street Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong |
All available copies of FREEDOM SWIMMERS in HK & Germany has been sold out!
2019 Solo Show
Exhibition period: 29 Oct - 25 Nov 2019
Details to be announced.
Funded and supported by Hong Kong Arts Development Council
Exhibition period: 29 Oct - 25 Nov 2019
Details to be announced.
Funded and supported by Hong Kong Arts Development Council
Literary Season 2018 Smells the Same: Literature x Visual Arts Exhibition
Held by the Hong Kong Jockey Club and The House of Hong Kong literature
Exhibition period: 1 Feb -17 Feb 2019
Exhibition venue: L0 Gallery, Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre (JCCAC)
Held by the Hong Kong Jockey Club and The House of Hong Kong literature
Exhibition period: 1 Feb -17 Feb 2019
Exhibition venue: L0 Gallery, Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre (JCCAC)
2018
Literary Season 2018 Smells the Same: Literature x Visual Arts Exhibition
Held by the Hong Kong Jockey Club and The House of Hong Kong literature
Exhibition period: 28 Dec 2018 - 17 Jan 2019
Exhibition venue: Pao Galleries, 5/F, Hong Kong Art Center
Held by the Hong Kong Jockey Club and The House of Hong Kong literature
Exhibition period: 28 Dec 2018 - 17 Jan 2019
Exhibition venue: Pao Galleries, 5/F, Hong Kong Art Center
Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art/
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FREEDOM SWIMMERS is mentioned at
Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art Volume 17, Number 4, July/August 2018 by Phoebe Wong and Eliza Gluckman THE PARALLAX OF GENERATIONS AND GENDERS: WOMEN IN ART, THE HONG KONG CASE Online reading: https://yishu-online.com/browse-articles/?950 ARTICLE DESCRIPTION
In this text, Eliza Gluckman and Phoebe Wong employ a conversational methodology in their research on the lives of women artists in Hong Kong. It is written as part of the New Hall Art Collection Asia Art Initiative, “Women in Art: Hong Kong,” a research project commissioned in collaboration with the Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong, in 2017. RELATED KEYWORDS Phoebe Wong, Eliza Gluckman, gender, women artists, Hong Kong, New Hall Art Collection Asia Art Initiative, Asia Art Archive, Sunny Yung, Choi Yan-Chi, Au Hoi-lam, Irene Chou, Fang Zhouling, Elva Lai, Ho Sin Tung, Angela Su, Sara Wong, Yvonne Lo, Wong Wo Bik, Jaffa Lam |
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FREEDOM SWIMMERS - solo show by Elva Lai, 2017. Exhibition view during Landskrona Foto Festival 2017. Photo from: MINNE/MEMORY: LANDSKRONA FOTO FESTIVAL 2017
THE SCARS OF THE SEA — “FREEDOM SWIMMERS” ARTIST’S BOOK SHARING
Date: 23 June 2018｜Saturday
Time: 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Venue Sponsor: ACO｜14/Floor, Foo Tak Building, 365-367 Hennessy Rd, Wan Chai
In conversation｜Elva LAI, Edward LAI
Artist Elva Lai’s book “Freedom Swimmers” made during her study in Germany juxtaposes two events situated in different regions and eras——the Syrian refugee crisis and the largest human population movement in Hong Kong’s recent history known as “the Great Escape to Hong Kong”. During this book sharing event at ACO, she will discuss with Edward Lai K.C., an independent journalist who recently pursued a Master degree in peace and conflict studies in Britain and Germany, about the hardships of refugees’ lives in Europe and Hong Kong as well as the possibility to find a common ground for migration communities in the two areas. All are welcome to join.
Date: 23 June 2018｜Saturday
Time: 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Venue Sponsor: ACO｜14/Floor, Foo Tak Building, 365-367 Hennessy Rd, Wan Chai
In conversation｜Elva LAI, Edward LAI
Artist Elva Lai’s book “Freedom Swimmers” made during her study in Germany juxtaposes two events situated in different regions and eras——the Syrian refugee crisis and the largest human population movement in Hong Kong’s recent history known as “the Great Escape to Hong Kong”. During this book sharing event at ACO, she will discuss with Edward Lai K.C., an independent journalist who recently pursued a Master degree in peace and conflict studies in Britain and Germany, about the hardships of refugees’ lives in Europe and Hong Kong as well as the possibility to find a common ground for migration communities in the two areas. All are welcome to join.
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GUEST｜EDWARD LAI
LAI, Edward Ka Chun is a Master of Arts graduate in Peace and Conflict Studies, offered by the University of Kent, England and the Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany. After graduation in 2017, he took a voluntary internship at Christian Action for Reconciliation and Social Assistance (CARSA) in Rwanda where he worked with a cadre of professionals in post-genocide peace education and personal reconciliation. Since 2017, he has been the regular contributor to the column “Global Vision” of the Christian weekly newspaper, Christian Times, in which he served as an assistant editor from 2009 to 2015. He published articles on European refugee issues in Chinese news sites HK01 and Initium Media. https://laikachun.wordpress.com |
HOST | LIU Mankun
LIU Mankun is a writer and practitioner of contemporary art based in Hong Kong and Shanghai. She sees writing and research as ways to witness and intervene the evolving mechanisms of art. She worked as an editor at LEAP Magazine and is now an MPhil candidate. |
Exhibition #4:
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01.12.2017 - 16.12.2018
VERNISSAGE - 30.11.2017 / 18H - 21H00 ODRADEK RUE AMÉRICAINE 35 - 1050 BRUXELLES VENDREDI ET SAMEDI 14H - 18H OU SUR RENDEZ-VOUS WWW.ODRADEKRESIDENCE.BE |
The book:
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ON VIEW DURING WINTER 2017
1. Sweden, Landskrona Landskrona Foto Festival: landskronafoto.org 2. Germany, Leipzig MZIN: mzin.de 3. Hong Kong 1a Space: oneaspace.org.hk 4. Belgium, Brussels ODRADEK: odradekresidence.be 1st print order from Germany:
https://mzin.de/shop/elva-lai/ 2nd print order from Hong Kong: https://www.aco.hk/ Please be informed that for most of the images of refugees from Communist China, the copyrights have been settled with ISD HKSAR, AP, Getty Images and British Pathé. Others are unable to be traced. |
This project juxtaposes the escape of Syrian refugees and the history of refugees from China to Hong Kong in the 60s and 70s. In the framework of this project, the history of Hong Kong “Freedom Swimmers” in the 60s and 70s is presented, and the life of Syrian refugees are presented as illustrations. This juxtaposition hopes to reveal the familiar and the unfamiliar situations that refugees face in different eras and locations. Most importantly, how we could relate ourselves to the refugees by understanding the issues of giving and taking.
MAJOR SPONSOR: Landskrona Foto Festival 2017 The Landskrona Foto and Fröfabriken Creative Space Residency 2016 SPONSOR: Hong Kong Arts Development Council (HKADC) Art and culture outreach (ACO) This project is supported by the Arts Development Fund of the Home Affairs Bureau, the Government of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. |
Seminar und Symposium “Über die Grenze”, SS 2016
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Institut für Theorie, Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig
mit Prof. Dr. Dieter Daniels,Sven Bergelt und in Kooperation mit der Fachklasse für Installation und Raum Prof. Joachim Blank und Fabian Bechtle |
Durch die aktuellen Migrationsbewegungen, auch als ‚Flüchtlingskrise’ bezeichnet, erhalten territoriale Grenzen in und um Europa eine lange nicht gekannte Bedeutung. Die seit dem Schengen-Abkommen verschwundenen Kontrollen zwischen den EU-Nachbarstaaten werden sukzessive wieder eingeführt. Insbesondere jedoch sind die Außengrenzen der EU akute Konfliktzonen geworden.
Unter dem bewusst doppeldeutigen Titel ‚Über die Grenze’ werden in diesem Seminar einerseits die politischen, historischen, sozialen und zwischenmenschlichen Bedeutungen von Grenzen untersucht. Theoretische Texte sowie exemplarische künstlerische Arbeiten werden einer Analyse unterzogen. |
“How about the other 80% you forgot?”
Promotional poster
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2015
“How about the other 80% you forgot?” Cheng Ming Building, New Asia College, the Chinese University of Hong Kong The exhibition "How about the other 80% you forgot?" investigates the life between important memories, those redundant and daily life in the distant past that we may unaware of. However, memories are motionless and they reside in space, especially when we decide to move out of it and revisit the space after a long time, we could see those daily life in the past vividly. By depicting and washing a deteriorated house, which was abandoned since its owners had emigrated, we would be able to find out how memory in the distant past exists in present. |
2016
Landskrona Foto Festival Event - on 21st August, 2016
Artist talk with Jenny Maria Nilsson
For more: http://djupvattenmyt.tumblr.com/post/148833109603/elva-lai
June to August, 2016
Artist in Residency stay in Sweden
The Landskrona Foto and Fröfabriken Creative Space Residency 2016
http://www.landskronafoto.org/en/residency/
Landskrona Foto Festival Event - on 21st August, 2016
Artist talk with Jenny Maria Nilsson
For more: http://djupvattenmyt.tumblr.com/post/148833109603/elva-lai
June to August, 2016
Artist in Residency stay in Sweden
The Landskrona Foto and Fröfabriken Creative Space Residency 2016
http://www.landskronafoto.org/en/residency/
The Landskrona Foto and Fröfabriken Creative Space Residency 2016
LANDSKRONA FOTO RESIDENCY 2016
ELVA LAI The Landskrona Foto Resident 2016 is artist Elva Lai from Hong Kong. The jury’s motivation: Elva Lai (Ming Chu) was born in China in 1989, but grew up in Hong Kong. She is educated in Hong Kong, the United States and is currently Meisterschüler at Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig. Thus she has a broad education, where photography plays a substantial and important role. It can be about the context in which her work is presented, but foremost it is about time and history. Her journey from China to Hong Kong has given her a special relationship with migration and memory. What is the meaning behind the memories of the past? When does a memory become a story? In her art Lai combines her work with found photographs. These can come from her family photo album, details from life before migration that materialize the memories. What do they mean now? How can one merge then and now? Is it even possible? Elva Lai’s work is a fascinating meeting of materials full of excitement, history, absence, longing and wonder. Elva Lai: www.thisiselva.com The Landskrona Foto Residency Program received 82 applications from 38 different countries. The jury consisted of Jenny Nordquist, Jenny Lindhe and Thomas Millroth. 
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LANDSKRONA FOTO RESIDENCYPROGRAM
Landskrona Foto and Fröfabriken Creative Space have initiated residency program for fine-art photography beginning in the Spring of 2016. The program’s scope for this year is the city’s district Öster, a socioeconomically diverse neighborhood currently undergoing modernization. The residency program provides accepted artists with a space to cultivate their creative process in an environment rich in cultural resources and discourse. CONTEXT Landskrona Foto has in recent years been established as one of the Nordic regions’ eminent photography initiatives and encompasses the renowned Landskrona Foto Festival and the first Swedish historical photo exhibition. Landskrona Foto is an ongoing project seeking to develop a hub for the art of photography. Fröfabriken Creative Space is a new collaborative platform for art, production and meetings. It is situated in a former seed plant in Landskrona. 1600 sqm have been remodeled to accommodate artists’ and photographers’ specific workspace needs. Today there are 13 ateliérs, one photo studio and a multi-use hall for meetings, events, and group activities. The artists, photographers and designers in Fröfabriken welcome participants of the residency program into a stimulating environment with access to local and global networks within the artistic and photographic industries. RESIDENCY – 185 sqm studio in Fröfabriken Creative Space – Circa three month period between May 15th – September 15th 2016 – Apartment in central Landskrona – Travel & production budgets – Living expenses – Mentorship based on artist’s needs – Participation in Landskrona Foto Festival 2016 – The project will be exhibited during Landskrona Foto Festival 2017 | ||
EMERGING ARTISTS
Elva Lai Ming Chu ( WINNER OF EMERGING ARTIST CATEGORY )
Esda Ng
Joe Yiu
Joyce Lo
Lo Chi Kit ( WINNER OF HKRAC CHOICE AWARD FOR EMERGING ARTIST CATEGORY )
Sim Chan
Tang Kwok Hin
COMMUNITY ARTISTS
Alain Jacquier
Fung Tzs-Chung Alvin ( WINNER OF COMMUNITY ARTIST CATEGORY )
HK Arun
Jack Li Yip Fuk ( WINNER OF HKRAC CHOICE AWARD FOR COMMUNITY CATEGORY )
Linda Barnes
Lindsay Qian
Tyler Whitlock
Elva Lai Ming Chu ( WINNER OF EMERGING ARTIST CATEGORY )
Esda Ng
Joe Yiu
Joyce Lo
Lo Chi Kit ( WINNER OF HKRAC CHOICE AWARD FOR EMERGING ARTIST CATEGORY )
Sim Chan
Tang Kwok Hin
COMMUNITY ARTISTS
Alain Jacquier
Fung Tzs-Chung Alvin ( WINNER OF COMMUNITY ARTIST CATEGORY )
HK Arun
Jack Li Yip Fuk ( WINNER OF HKRAC CHOICE AWARD FOR COMMUNITY CATEGORY )
Linda Barnes
Lindsay Qian
Tyler Whitlock
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Recognising the important role of art in society to raise awareness and defend human rights,local human rights non-governmental organisation HKRAC has inaugurated an annual Hong Kong Human Rights Art Prize. By featuring two categories,the ground-breaking Prize both offers local artists a meaningful opportunity to showcase their work while at the same time engaging the greater community.
The Emerging Artist category was open to young professional artists in Hong Kong under the age of 35 years old. In order to enter,these artists had to be nominated by someone of good standing in the Hong Kong art community. The Community artist category was open any non-professional Hong Kong based artist of any age. HKRAC received well over 50 entries for the prize and they represented a diverse,talented and exciting collections. With great deliberation,our judges,Melissa Lee,a visual arts lecturer at the Chinese University of Hong Kong,Kacey Wong,a well known Hong Kong artist,and Vincent Piket,the Head of Office of the European Union in Hong Kong,whittled the competition down to seven finalists in each category and 2 winners. HKRAC has also awarded an HKRAC Choice Award,chosen by its staff,to one artist in each category. Each of these four winners will be auctioned off in a live auction by Christie’s on November 5 at our event. |
The finalists in each category,as well as the winners,can be seen below. Each of these 14 pieces of art will be available for sale by auction on November 5 at our one night only exhibition at the Sundaram Tagore Gallery. Please email cwaterhouse@hkrac.org for more information or prices and to RSVP if you wish to attend. Attendance is free and all are welcome.
HKRAC is excited to invite you to celebrate the power of art in protecting human rights at our inaugural Hong Kong Human Rights Art Prize - a one night only exhibition and charity auction on 5 November at Sundaram Tagore Gallery. Showcasing Hong Kong's most talked about emerging artists, unique and stunning artwork will be available to purchase in a live Christie's auction or via silent auction. Attendance is free and please feel free to invite friends! All proceeds raised will go directly to HKRAC and the exhibited artists, thanks to our generous supporters. http://us4.campaign-archive1.com/?u=92e13b7c1ed7db383d143974f&id=9ff93a495e&e=eddd0a16f9 |