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  • News
  • About Elva
  • #Project :​FREEDOM SWIMMERS
    • #1 Sweden
    • #2 Germany
    • #3 Hong Kong
    • #4 Belgium
  • CV
  • Hong Kong Wildflowers
  • Thank You Card
  • Red series
  • Blue series
  • Green Series
  • Light & Black series
  • Reflective Space
  • Emotion Dictionary
  • Warm Room
  • "Sorry, it's fragile."
  • 'CASINO'
  • Air Bubble: the voice of a room
  • A Sense of Homeland
  • I am sorry, my old land. Bye bye, bye bye
  • Work Overview
  • Shop: Setting Sun
  • Shop: The Slightly Warm Bathroom
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The installation work entitled “Memory in Space II” is a series of tailored-made, table-sized glass boxes which can be hung on wall. These boxes are made of steel and glass mesh. The left and right sides of each box are open-ended. Through the mesh glass, there is a single photographic image in each box. The audience can look through the mesh glass and both sides of the open box and see the detailed, hand-drawn intervention on top of the inkjet-printed photographic image. The photographic images inside the box convey the main idea of this series.
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(fluorescent light), 2015, Wired glass, charcoal and inkjet on archival paper, 39 x 60 cm (Installation view)
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(Clock), Wired glass, charcoal and inkjet on archival paper, 39 x 60 cm (Installation view)
 By partially removing the thick paint of the exhibition panels, which were used over many years, traces of the previous exhibitions are revealed in fields of faded white patches. These white patches resonate with an abandoned house. To complete my visual reflection on loss and memory, I contained the above-mentioned images inside tailored made metal-mesh-frame glass. Thus emphasising the idea that these images are at the same time in the past and inaccessible if not through  an enormous effort of memory. 
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Sweet Peace (Clock)
Elva Lai
Wired glass, charcoal and inkjet on archival paper
39 x 60 cm 

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Sweet Peace (Red string)
Elva Lai
Wired glass, charcoal and inkjet on archival paper  
50 x 33 cm
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(Red string), Wired glass, charcoal and inkjet on archival paper, 50 x 33 cm (Installation view)
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Sweet Peace (Empty room), Wired glass, charcoal and inkjet on archival paper, 39 x 60 cm (Installation view)
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Sweet Peace (lace)
Elva Lai
Wired glass, charcoal and inkjet on archival paper 
39 x 44 cm

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Sweet Peace (fluorescent light)
Elva Lai
Wired glass, charcoal and inkjet on archival paper
39 x 60 cm 
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(Mosquito net), 2015, Wired glass, charcoal and inkjet on archival paper, 39 x 44 cm
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Hold Together, mirror and wooden stand, size variable. (Installation view)
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Hold Together, mirror and wooden stand, size variable. (Installation view)
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She really wanted to hang a towel on the wall, used towel, nails, size variable.
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Diligence, coconut mat and glass, h.130 x x.91.5 cm.
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Promotional poster
The exhibition "How about the other 80% you forgot?" is about the memories of a house.

It 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.

"How about the other 80% you forgot?"

Supported by 
Department of Fine Arts, the Chinese University of Hong Kong

Sponsor:

Professor Mayching Kao Fine Arts Fund
Print Studio Inkchacha 
Exhibition Catalog:
Editor:
Chan Leung-ho

Elva Lai
Design:
Chan Leung-ho
Printed on:
July 2015
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  • News
  • About Elva
  • #Project :​FREEDOM SWIMMERS
    • #1 Sweden
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    • #3 Hong Kong
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  • CV
  • Hong Kong Wildflowers
  • Thank You Card
  • Red series
  • Blue series
  • Green Series
  • Light & Black series
  • Reflective Space
  • Emotion Dictionary
  • Warm Room
  • "Sorry, it's fragile."
  • 'CASINO'
  • Air Bubble: the voice of a room
  • A Sense of Homeland
  • I am sorry, my old land. Bye bye, bye bye
  • Work Overview
  • Shop: Setting Sun
  • Shop: The Slightly Warm Bathroom