Hong Kong is in essence a mosaic of hills and islands. In this work, the distinctive landforms of the city’s 18 administrative districts are each metaphorically reconstructed into a pictorial landscape for installation in a dedicated space. Taking reference from the varied perspectives and stylised rocks and mountains in the reunion paintings portrayed by the late Ming and early Qing painter Huang Xiangjian in the three preeminent collections, namely Xubaizhai, Chih Lo Lou and Bei Shan Tang, the installation juxtaposes disparate spatial-temporal scenes at varying distances and links them together with the use of colours and lines to form a landscape handscroll that is “continuous” in terms of time and space.
Independently formed and mounted on top of coloured plexiglass pillars, the landscapes for the districts are different in size to correlate proportionately with their respective area. Formed by blocks of coloured plexiglass stacked atop one another, the pillars are different in height to correlate proportionately with their respective population density to resemble a cluster of buildings that are variant in height. When set against the skyline of the Victoria Harbour, the reflective architectural construction superimposes the contemporary cityscape on the tranquil hilly islands across time and space.
按此觀看香港十八區的面積和人口密度 Click here to see the area and population density of the 18 districts of Hong Kong
從左至右:離島、屯門、元朗、荃灣、葵青、北區、中西區、南區、大埔、深水埗、沙田、油尖旺、灣仔、九龍城、黃大仙、東區、觀塘、西貢 From left to right: Islands, Tuen Mun, Yuen Long, Tuen Wan, Kwai Tsing, Northern, Central and Western, Southern, Tai Po, Sham Shui Po, Sha Tin, Yau Tsim Mong, Wan Chai, Kowloon City, Wong Tai Sin, Eastern, Kwun Tong, Sai Kung