How are memories formed? Memories are formed when the nerve cells fire together and wire together.

“Memories” make up the source of inspiration in this exhibition. This place provides the raw materials – information, texts, sounds, data, myths, tales…etc. Memories can be true and real. But most of the time, they can appear as a blur, enmeshed with fabricated fantasies. This exhibition does not look for accurate recalls of past events, but explores where these myriad traces of memories, with a spark of imagination mixed in. 

The exhibition venue is flooded with historical memories of Wan Chai turning over a new leaf in the past century. By perfusing renewable structure with modern architectural techniques, this allows modern technology to fill and support the original construction materials. The purpose of conservation and revitalisation is about extracting the cultural core and fill in new life so that people can reconnect with all those memories.

Four artists from different disciplines contribute to this imagination at M7: GayBird works with sound and media installation, Ip Yuk-yiu in game programming, Hugo Yeung in digital programming and Kachi Chan in visual installation. Using different techniques, memories will be analysed, data will be transformed. At this very interesting and fluid intersection of arts and technology, what forms and shapes can memories take?  

Venue address: 3/F, 7 Mallory, Wan Chai