Exhibition Tour #3
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WAYS OF SURVIVING THROUGH ACCELERATED MINDFULNESS
Venue: 1a space, Unit 14, Cattle Depot Artist Village, 63 Ma Tau Kok Road, To Kwa Wan, Kowloon, Hong Kong Enquiry: 25290087/ info@oneaspace.org.hk |
1a space proudly presents Ways of Surviving Through Accelerated Mindfulness, a group exhibition curated by Wu Mo, showcases artworks of six artists from Europe and Hong Kong including Joana Brunkow, Zaida Guerrero Casado, Elva Lai, Marie-Eve Levasseur, Peggy Pehl and Grażyna Roguski.
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This is the third exhibition space of the project "Free Swimmer". All the artworks are rearranged in different ways inspired by the art space.
This project juxtaposes the escape of Syrian refugees in 2015 and the history of refugees from China to Hong Kong in the 60s and 70s. In the framework of this book, the history of Hong Kong “Freedom Swimmers” in the 60s and 70s is presented, and the escape stories of Syrian refugees to Germany in Summer 2015 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.
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Freedom swimmers, 3 of 18 blocks of paper, 27 x 27 cm, 720 pages of image and text print on paper
Aim of the project:
1. Connecting refugees with us, who are relatively stable and safe in our society, by focusing on the refugee issues, esp. about their ways of learning new skills, new spaces, new cultures, and their daily life such as eating, sleeping, and waiting. For example, how different would they experience Time under anxiety and uncertainty? 2. A deeper understanding of the human condition in crisis to generate creative artwork that will benefit both refugees and us to build a society with understanding and compassion. |
