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A Moving Hill
Artist: Leung Mee-ping
Artwork Location: Visitor Centre
"Quiet
and
empty.
Compared
to
Central,
it
is
almost
no
man's
land.
However,
the
animasl'
tweet
makes
people
feel
very
surreal."
Leung
Mee-ping,
an
artist
who
pays
much
attention
to
the
minute
things
in
life,
is
fascinated
by
the
social
significance
of
the
stuffed
animal
toys
that
were
part
of
the
growing-up
process
of
her
family
members.
Humans,
being
economic
animals,
appear
to
have
established
a
close
relationship
with
such
mimicked
animals,
where
the
parties
have
undergone
an
extended
process
of
taming.
Leung
and
her
team
have
salvaged
a
large
number
of
stuff
toys,
which
were
originally,
for
instance,
gifts
from
parents
to
children,
props
used
for
graduation
portraits,
and
prizes
from
claw-machine
shops
that
have
folded.
These
cast-off
objects,
so
much
a
part
of
old
memories,
are
brought
to
the
Gardens
at
the
CBD
and
turned
into
a
colourful
art
installation.
In
addition,
Leung
will
run
workshops
and
pile
some
of
these
animal
puppets
into
hillocks.
As
each
of
these
has
a
powerful
magnet
inside,
visitors
can
play
a
tug-of-war
game
by
trying
to
pull
the
clusters
apart
and
regroup
them
at
will.
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Artist Biography
Leung obtained her MFA from California Institute of the Arts in the United States and Ph.D from the Religious & Cultural Studies Department of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She is currently a professor of art creativity at the Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University. She often projects ethics, community and memories of the human living situation in her work. She was the fellowship recipient of Irish Museum of Modern Art in 2014. She was also invited as residence artist in Slade School of Fine Art, University College London in 2012 and the Parthenon Museum in the United States in 2014 respectively. Leung was awarded "Annual Artist Award" from the Hong Kong Art Development Council in 2015 and the "President's Award for Outstanding Performance in Scholarly Work" by the Hong Kong Baptist University in 2019. Latest exhibitions include Land Art Mongolia 5th Biennial 2018 "WHO ARE WE NOW?" in Mongolia and "Collections of Tom, Debbie and Harry" at Tai Kwun in 2018.
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