The Ox Warehouse has invited Hong Kong artist, Dennis Wong Chun-keung, to join their Artist-in-Residence Programme entitled “Eerie Scenery”, co-sponsored by the Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) and Macau Foundation (FM), according to an article on the gallery’s Facebook page.
Wong was born in Guangzhou and moved to Hong Kong at the age of six. His work has been exhibited and collected in a number of places, including Europe, the US and the mainland such as the 2016 Three Shadows Photography Award Finalist in the mainland and 2017 Van Cleef & Arpels Traditional Programme Winner in Paris and Hong Kong, according to the article.
Wong is particularly interested in understanding the relationships between human beings, “spaces” and living environments, the article points out, adding that these elements have inspired him to move forward courageously to achieve his dreams.
In this exhibition, he took photographs of strangers, wanderers, Hong Kong’s Sham Shui Po district, and macrographies of human bodies.
According to the article, the pictures lead the audience astray like a guessing game, and the more people look, “the more doubts can be found...logical connections fail to establish, yet the ‘people’ in the pictures are closely attached in contemporary life.”
Wong’s work does not possess prior justification which can obscure the “private” and “public” propositions, according to the article. Wong has never attempted to offer any comprehensive narrative in his work, as he says, according to the article, that “everything is all the same, seeing up close, it is all tiny dots of atoms…”.
The exhibition is on display until July 12 on the ground floor of the Post-Ox Warehouse Experimental Site in 15 Rua do Volong, except Mondays, from noon to 8 p.m. daily. Admission is free.
Visitors are required to wear a facemask and apply hand sanitiser when entering the venue.
For enquiries call 28530026 or visit the website: https://www.facebook.com/oxwarehouse/
Photos: Camy Tam
