【NF Breathing Space is Opening Soon 🖼️📖 Urban Still Waters Exhibition Captures the Essence of City Life🏙️】
Starting April 10, Nan Fung Place presents the NF Breathing Space—a cosy haven that combines an art exhibition, reading nook, and curated shop! Escape the hustle and bustle of the city and immerse yourself in a tranquil atmosphere filled with artistic vibes.
Join us for the limited-time exhibition “Urban Still Waters" featuring local artist Kensa (@kensahung). His whimsical and heart-warming artwork transforms everyday observations into delightful pieces—like discarded flowers turning trash cans into “vases," a caged bird becoming a grandpa’s “portable music player," and summer mosquito swatting leading to a “bloody incident." These seemingly trivial urban tales spark joy and resonate with everyone, guaranteed to bring a smile to your face 🙂❤️!
Plus, explore four unique local shops on-site, including: Seeds Children’s Bookstore, to-day bookstore, B’IN Select and Fabrica X.
NF Breathing Space 🗓️ Dates: April 10 – July 13, 2025 🕚 Time: 11 AM – 8 PM 📍 Location: Shop L1-3-5, 173 Des Voeux Road Central, Nan Fung Place 💵 Admission: Free of Charge
Kensa Hung’s creative activity spans across painting, illustration, graphic design, arts education, drama performance and stage production, using ink, seal engraving, sculptures as the media. Having spent a long time researching into animals, including insects and birds, Hung has in-depth knowledge on various species. His artworks depicting the diversity of Mother Nature are strongly influenced by illustrations of wild animals and documentaries on rare birds, and are inspired by traditional Chinese painting and calligraphy.
Insects in the city are seemingly negligible, even despised, rejected, or captured. People associate them with filth, diseases, decay and other repulsive things, and hence often try to keep them out of sight. Unknowingly, men have classified species into different categories. Some are regarded as more important, some are neglected. The artwork, comprised of graphics of various sizes and shapes that put the valued critters alongside the ignored, probes into the relationships between urbanites and creatures around them. The use of brightly colored canvases and pigments gives rise to a touch of artificiality. One of the principal pieces depicts an old dog Wong-jai in real size. Wong-jai is reared by residents on the island of Tung Ping Chau and a familiar feature for visitors. Though with a cystic tumor on its face, Wong-jai creates a strong contrast with a cheerful and care-free demeanour that seems to indicate it is totally unaffected by the affliction. Different critters are featured in other paintings – swallows, bats, spiders, each accompanied by various kinds of insects. Two of these paintings are even created on insect-attracting canvas.
第二部分「殘像」，勞麗麗、謝銘思和袁雅芝的作品透過中上環社區街道歷史與面貌的變遷，以藝術家「自身」出發、以物種探索「地方」特性與個人身份記憶情感聯繫，以及對香港的想像。 – ‘Urban Species’, a night-time art project curated by MUSTHAVEKEYS, introduces new works by six artists on the various species that inhabit the city, in response to the ways of urban living of today’s human beings, and the resulting changes and connections.
The first part of the exhibition, named ‘Desire’, showcases the works of Kensa Hung, Michael Whittle and Ivy Yuen. Portrayed from the human perspective, various species are a reflection of the extension of our human desires.
The second part of the exhibition, ‘Reminiscence’, deals with the history of the streets in Central and the changes of their outlook through the works of Natalie Lo Lai Lai, Macy Tse Ming Sze and Yuen Nga Chi, drawn from the artists’ personal experiences and through the exploration via different species of the characteristics of places and their association with personal identities, memories and sentimentalities, and the imaginations of Hong Kong. – 藝術家 Artists:
「欲望」‘Desire’ / 25.08 – 16.09.2023
洪忠傑 Kensa Hung Michael Whittle 袁進𡛕 Ivy Yuen Chun Tai
「殘像」‘Reminiscence’ / 20.09 – 15.10.2023
勞麗麗 Natalie Lo Lai Lai 謝銘思 Macy Tse Ming Sze 袁雅芝 Yuen Nga Chi
– 地點Venue: 中環贊善里7A號地下 G/F, 7A Chancery Lane, Central
開放時間 Opening Hours: 星期三至日 / Wed to Sun / 7 – 10pm – 策劃 Curated by: MUSTHAVEKEYS
資助Supported by: 香港藝術發展局Hong Kong Arts Development Council
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