Ragpickers at Novalis Art and Design

Funny how waste and wasting can refer to losing something precious and valuable like time or energy, but also to something you don’t need anymore and would very much prefer to lose. Human existence is wasteful in all the meanings possible yet we miraculously manage to produce something meaningful, important and marvellous, sometimes out of that exact waste. Well, maybe not all of us are uniformly good at that, but Go Hung, Sharu Sikdar, and Wong Chun Kit Louis did it perfectly. Whether it’s using your own hair to document the passing of time, or criticising Hong Kong’s housing crisis using just plastic scraps, or pondering on abandoned and discarded words and forgotten meanings—the artists and the curator played and worked with the theme in depth so visiting this exhibition is totally not a waste of your time.

Curated by: Charmaine Tam.

Exhibition period: 2 July – 20 August
Gallery address: G/F, 197 Hollywood Road, Central