Seven Tsang and Purple Liu: Homely

EVENT DESCRIPTION

In the oracle bone inscriptions of the Shang Dynasty, there are two ways to write “home”, one is “宀” (the pictograph of a house). That means home or inside of a house.

Home is constructed with human and buildings.
Human created memories with a place, soul also appear when a place memorized by a human. Maybe this is a place called home.

This exhibition introduces two artists, Seven Tsang, using plant installations as her artwork medium, and Purple Liu, apply buildings in her paintings as her artwork context.

Seven Tsang develops intense passion in plant design and aim to promote indoor planting and botanical art in Hong Kong. Tsang’s work takes plants to a level beyond mere decoration or aesthetic plant arrangement. They unfold the harmonious coexistence between nature and humans by presenting mixed media artworks. It aims to revive the relationship between the audience and nature. The artworks are a narrative of the artist’s journey of self-rediscovery.

Purple Liu’s art seeks for reason. Often use architectural motifs to demonstrate the relationship between objects and beings.Her color and shape driven paintings explore the boundaries between virtual space and tangible structure.

Artists express their memories with home, people and happenings in their artworks. The memories they experienced all appear unexpectedly. The memories are not important, they are just trivial incident affected by duration of time. Sometimes the memories come one by one softly and suddenly, sometimes strong as like as storm and rain.

Memories maybe is the full stop, but actually it is a ellipsis. We took lots of effort to memorize the past.We need courage to embrace all the emotions after the precipitation of memories.During the exhibition, audience experiencing the stories in the artworks and also experiencing their own emotions and feelings. Try to embrace yourself with emotional memories in this exhibition space.