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Presented by: Leisure and Cultural Services Department
Organised by: Art Promotion Office
Collaborators: Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale Executive Committee and The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts
Supporting Organisation: Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office — Tokyo
Activity Collaborators: soundpocket, Fleurs des Lettres, Art Appraisal Club, Hong Kong Open Printshop and Academy of Visual Arts of Hong Kong Baptist University
The second exhibition of the Hong Kong House opened in August 2019, presenting Hong Kong artist, Annie Wan's Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread project. Wan's work uses food culture and the familiar medium of ceramics as themes to allow people to see the precious in the mundane. Before she started on her work, Annie visited many families and shops in Tsunan from March to April, experiencing for herself the ways the locals use simple ingredients, as well as the humility and thankfulness they show for the food they receive. The title of her work is a verse from the Lord's Prayer that expresses gratitude to God for granting food. It mirrors the Japanese phrase itadakimasu, which are words of thanks that are said before meals. In the exhibition, a series of ceramic works of moulded food objects document the food-related stories of Tsunan residents. The black-and-white photos on the wall depict Annie's interactions with and memories of the residents. A bowl with a muted elegance is coated with a glaze made from Koshihikari rice husks that are mixed with acacia wood ashes from Hong Kong. The moulded ceramics of Hong Kong and Tsunan food were juxtaposed on a dining table to present for the audience a visual feast, connecting two places, on this fertile land.
Meanwhile, sound artists Mark Chung and Jacklam Ho from soundpocket, Fleur des Lettres's editor Lee Yat-hong and writer Lui Siu-lung, art critic Vivian Ting and Chan Sai-lok from Art Appraisal Club also visited the Hong Kong House and created works in response to their exotic experiences. Hong Kong Open Printshop organised cyanotype workshops in the local community with the aid of the sun and water from the nature, participants experienced the inter-relationship between people, nature and art.
Give
Us
This
Day
Our
Daily
Bread
by
Annie
Wan
Exhibition
period:
(Summer)
10.8
—
18.8.2019
(Autumn)
15.10
—
4.11.2019
Venue:
Hong
Kong
House
Address:
29
–
4
Miyanohara,
Kamigo,
Tsunan-machi,
Nakauonuma-gun,
Niigata
Prefecture,
Japan
Opening
hours:
10am
—
4pm
daily
Artist's
Interview
(3:10)
Highlights
(2:06)
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