Poetic Heritage at Tai Kwun

Let me show off a bit by quoting Anna Akhmatova (I am Russian, after all!):
If you only knew what kind of trash
Poems shamelessly grow in:
Like weeds under the fence,
Like crabgrass, dandelions.

Debris and remnants, dust and ashes, ideas and memories.
Featuring works by Alfredo & Isabel Aquilizan, Ursula Biemann & Paulo Tavares, Leelee Chan, Leung Mee-ping, Jorge Otero-Pailos, Annie Wan Lai-kuen the exhibition is providing different takes on what heritage can mean. What parts of the past are worth saving and preserving? Should we preserve everything just in case it will be considered significant or nostalgic one day? Are the sad and the happy memories and what holds them equally important? Who is making these decisions and who is responsible for making, keeping, and taking care of the objects? Who is making the narrative that will be passed down to future generations? Plenty of questions, no direct answers—exactly how we love it!
(Also as a person who is constantly overusing the word “poetic” I truly like not being the only one; whoever came up with the title—hello and thank you!)

Exhibition period: 2 September – 21 November
Gallery address: JC Contemporary, Tai Kwun, Central