An event entitled “My !$x% Life – Exhibition by Heheandsheshe” (我的厭世人生–厭世他她作品展) aims to express the local artist’s dissatisfaction with life, according to a statement by the 10 Fantasia gallery. The exhibition is on display in rooms C01 and C02 at 10 Fantasia in São Lázaro district until Sunday.
The exhibition is co-hosted by the 10 Fantasia – A Creative Industries Incubator (瘋堂十號創意園) and the Creative Industries Promotion Association of St. Lazarus Church District. It is sponsored by the public Macau Foundation (FM).
The local artist, who does not reveal her birth name, created the character heheandsheshe in 2018. She joined the Craft Market Macau in 2019, 2020 and 2021; T.O.P (This is Our Place) Market in Mong Kok in Hong Kong; and 2020 Popup Asia in Taiwan.
A statement issued by the gallery quotes heheandsheshe as saying that rolling eyes and scowling faces have become a usual motion and that she “found the feeling of eye-rolling so cool”.
The statement says that people always face different kinds of pressure in society but most of them do not show their dissatisfaction when they’re unhappy. They would rather fake a smile. Thus, negative emotions are increasing day by day which people cannot release, the statement says, adding that, however, the artist underlines that she is living with a world-weary attitude does not mean that she does not enjoy life. On the contrary, she is “world-weary” because she is passionate about life.
The statement underlines that heheandsheshe’s expression has been in a state of eye-rolling which “completely” expresses her dissatisfaction, adding that the public are welcome to visit her exhibition if they come across feelings of weariness, and then move on.
10 Fantasia opens daily from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. (closed on Mondays), at 10 Calçada da Igreja de S. Lázaro. Admission is free.
For enquiries, visit https://es-es.facebook.com/heheandsheshe/.
All visitors to the venue must wear a facemask, have their temperature checked and present a digital health code.
The illustration entitled “Imperfect Life” says at the bottom (right) “Is everyone’s life imperfect? There should be regrets, right?”
The illustration of a cat entitled “Tired” says at the bottom(right) “Not only humans feel weary. Maybe animals also feel weary sometimes.”
The yellow-background illustration entitled “I Want to Travel”, created in 2020, notes at the bottom (right) “I have not travelled for two years and five months already”
The illustration entitled “I Don’t Want to Work” says on the canvas in red-brown that “there are seven days in a week when I don’t want to work”.
The illustration entitled “Loser” says at the bottom (right) that “Being a loser is the happiest times.”
The illustration entitled “Wear Helmet” notes at the bottom (right) that “Wearing a helmet is for safety, safely driving, safely dodging responsibility”
This pink-orange illustration says that “I will only come out of the toilet after someone else left the bathroom because I am afraid of saying hello.”
Photos: Camy Tam
