2020. Epson ultra giclee print. 120×84cm. Edition: 1/3+1AP.
2020. Pencil and watercolor on digital print (archival art paper). 33×33cm. Edition: 1/3+1AP.
2020. Double-channel video | 21’35” | colour | 16:9 | stereo | Cantonese | Chinese and English subtitle.
2019. Triple-channel video | 21’46” | colour | 16:9 | stereo | Cantonese, Japanese and English | Chinese and English subtitle.
2019. Pencil and watercolor on digital print (archival art paper). 29.5×32.7cm. Edition: 1/3+1AP.
2019. Single-channel video | 10’26” | color | 16:9 | stereo | Cantonese, Japanese and English | Chinese and English subtitle.
2019. Single-channel video | 1’45” | color | 16:9 | stereo | Japanese | Japanese and English subtitle.
2019. Single-channel video | 10’30” | B&W | 4:3 | stereo | Transparency film mounted on lightbox, metal rack, glass, CRT TV.
HBP XXXVI Predicament: LEE Kai Chung
2020.7.18-2020.8.19
LEE Kai Chung
LEE KAI CHUNG
LEE Kai Chung performs artistic research on historical events, political systems, and ideology. His work addresses the lack of proper governance over the records and forms of historiography. Through research, social participation, and engagement, Lee considers the individual gesture as a form of political and artistic transgression, which resonates with existing narratives of history.
In 2017, Lee initiated a pentalogy of projects that are under the notion of “Displacement and Diaspora” – to take departure from the socio-historical implication under the Pan-Asia context, the series examines human dispersion, material circulation, and their geopolitical relations. The first in the series, The Retrieval, Restoration, and Predicament (2017-19) examines the material and ideological transition of public statues in Hong Kong; the second, The Narrow Road to the Deep Sea (2019-20), scrutinizes human displacement in Hong Kong and Guangdong during the Imperial Japanese Occupation that led to the notorious Nanshitou Incident. The rest of the series are as follows: the third: The Longing Park (2020-22); the fourth: Infinite Train (2020-23); the final: Exile (2020 – 2030).
Education
2014 Master of Fine Arts (Distinction), School of Creative Media, City
University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
2008 Bachelor of Arts (Hons.), major in Fine Arts, The Chinese University
of Hong Kong
Exhibition
2020 Predicament (進退維谷), Hive Center for Contemporary Art (蜂巢當代藝術中心),
Beijing, China (Curated by Yang Jian)
The Narrow Road to the Deep Sea (通往深海的狹道), Art and Culture Outreach
(ACO), Hong Kong
2019 I could not recall how I got here (無法憶起 怎樣到達這裏), WMA Space, Hong Kong
(Curated by Vennes CHENG)
The Retrieval, Restoration and Predicament, Art Center Ongoing, Tokyo, Japan
2016 So Many Quiet Walks to Take, Floating Projects, Hong Kong
2014 Archive of the People, represented by Para-Site, Art Basel Hong Kong 14,
Hong Kong (Curated by Qinyi LIM)
Lee Kai Chuang: ‘The Narrow Road to the Deep Sea’ series
2020.12.12-2021.2.10
Guangzhou
Hive Center to participate in the Nanjing Art Fair International
2020.11.16-2020.11.29
Nanjing