DOOOR

EVENT DESCRIPTION

A door and an art, the two may seem unassociated, but both function as an entrance – to a building or the mind of an artist.

After the success of our first artist in residence exhibition “DOOR” in July 2021, THE SHOPHOUSE is pleased to present “DOOOR”, a 50-day tripartite conversation between artists, audience, and space, featuring Hong Kong artist Amy Tong, Elaine Chiu and Tang Kwong San. 

Each artist takes over a floor of the gallery, where they will create unique works in response to their surroundings. The exhibition aims to facilitate active observations and meaningful dialogue within the community.

The OPEN STUDIO of “DOOOR” aims to delve into each of the three artist’s creative processes whilst simultaneously displacing them from their accustomed creative environments. An interactive experience blurring the intimate relationship between artists, audience and gallery.

The EXHIBITION takes place after our OPEN STUDIO, act as a celebration and showcase of the on-site works created by the artists.

OPEN STUDIO 12 OCT – 6 NOV 2022 
EXHIBITION 9 – 27 NOV 2022

ABOUT THE ARTIST / ORGANISER

Amy Tong (b.1991, Hong Kong) is known for her abstract experimentation on possible scenarios. Her work is often a collage of idealised, multi-layered scenarios, expressing the emotional traces from her daily encounters with society. Treading around the realm of truth, rituals, and absurdities, Tong creates textured environments to explore the complexity of human emotions within surrealist settings.

Elaine Chiu (b.1996, Hong Kong) explores collective memories and cultural identities of urban environments through architectural forms. Elaine attained a Bachelor degree in art history at the University of Hong Kong in 2018, where she received the Talent Development Scholarship (2015) and Out Reaching Award (2016) from the Hong Kong SAR Government Scholarship Fund. Her work communicates hybrid memories, identity displacement, and the diasporic communities under urban development and redevelopment.

Kwong San Tang (b.1992) was born in China and now lives in Hong Kong. He received his BA in Fine Arts from RMIT University, Australia, in 2019. His practice combines photographs, drawings, objects and videos that trace intergenerational family memories and social history. Through reorganising and reinterpreting old belongings, family photo albums and documents in a range of media, Tang explores the subtle, intricate and complex connections between longing, loss and belonging.