An exhibition entitled “No Subjunctive” by local artist Yao Feng displaying 58 of his artworks, including photographs, paintings and installations, is being held at Albergue SCM.
The event is organised by Albergue SCM in celebration of the 21st anniversary of Macau’s return to the motherland and the establishment of the Macau Special Administrative Region (MSAR).
The exhibition is sponsored by the public Macau Foundation (FM).
“The work on display explores a pictographic language in which the figurative and the abstract merge into a cultural encounter, inheriting oriental and western influences, proposing new dynamics, concerns and conceptuality,” Albergue SCM President Carlos Marreiros writes in the exhibition brochure’s foreword.
According to the brochure, Yao Feng is the pen name of Yao Jingming who was born in Beijing and has lived in Macau since 1992. He is a professor in the University of Macau’s Portuguese Department.
Yao holds a doctorate in Comparative Literature from Fudan University in Shanghai. As a translator, researcher and poet, Yao has published widely, comprising poems, translations, prose, and essays. Yao is a winner of the Rougang Poetry Award, Changyao Poetry Award, Macau Literary Award and other poetry and translation awards. In 2006 he was decorated with the Medal of the Military Order of Saint James of the Sword by the Portuguese president.
Yao has curated various exhibitions including “Rebirth in the Spring Breeze – Art Exhibition of He Duoling” that is currently being held at the Macau Museum of Art (MAM), the brochure points out.
The exhibition at Albergue SCM runs until February 21 and opens daily from noon to 8 p.m. except Mondays when it opens from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. at A2 Gallery at 8, Calçada da Igreja de São Lázaro. Admission is free. The 117-page, trilingual (English, Chinese and Portuguese) exhibition brochure is free as well. It contains an introduction by the exhibition’s curator, Guilherme Ung Vai Meng, whose article concludes that “confronted with Yao Feng’s work, the viewer seems to see a sensual and flawless mirror of the soul, faintly reflecting the colours and emotions of this vast world. This is genuinely a poet’s intuition, and most certainly ‘no subjunctive’.”
It also includes an article entitled “Speculative Translation: The Art Practice of Yao Feng 2006-2020” by contemporary art scholar Lam Kong Chuen.
The exhibits are for sale except for four of them. They are priced at between 2,000 and 15,000 patacas.
Albergue SCM is owned by the Macau Holy House of Mercy (SCM). The gallery is a former hospice (“albergue”) for “old ladies”.
Visitors are required to wear a facemask and have their temperature checked when entering the venue.
For enquiries call 2852 2550 or 2852 3205.
Photos: Camy Tam
