BOOK SHARING | NEW TERRITORIES 界 by Justin Hui
Artist and architect Justin Hui will be sharing his new photobook “New Territories”, published by Asia One. The series of images from the title explores the changing landscape of Hong Kong's northern frontier, caught between its past and ongoing integration with mainland China. It is a journey across the ruins of fading memories of what once was to discover the meaning of home in a city that is ever changing.
The artist discovers a landscape interwoven with myths and forgotten histories. Each of his encounters reveal a territory torn between its past and proximity with Shenzhen, in which villages are demolished to the ground to make way for new towers, hidden shrines unearth neglected histories, and forests are eroded by construction.
The landscape becomes a new kind of territory, an inner journey that straddles past and present, nature and civilisation, occupation and absence, the seen and imagined. These images are contemplative as they are descriptive as the artist ponders the meaning of territory, memory and time, and the legacies of the past.
Date: Saturday, 17 December
Time: 2:30 - 3:30 PM
Language: English
Location: HART Haus
3/F, Cheung Hing Industrial Building, 12P Smithfield, Kennedy Town
Free Admission. Very limited capacity.
*To minimise the risk of COVID-19 spreading in the community, the number of participants of all programmes will be limited and regulated according to the latest social distancing policy from the Hong Kong Government. Participants will be required to complete health declarations before all events, and keep proper social distance during all events.
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