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CandyMary: Sugar Addiction at 13a New Street Art Gallery


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When it comes to sweets, many people have no resistance to them. The craving is as important as breathing. At the moment of eating, the tiny bits of happiness that we can feel all over our body is indeed remarkable. The sweet atmosphere wraps the taste buds, which cannot only satisfy our momentary appetite, but also bring an infinite sense of satisfaction. Urban people live a hard life of camp and service every day in a high-pressure environment. Having sweets is definitely a small blessing for them and a good medicine to comfort their tired hearts. Although the sense of “simple pleasure” is insignificant, its occurrence and existence can permeate different degrees of sweetness into life. Simple pleasure has the same effect when visiting or when we eat sweets.

CandyMary, a talented artist from Taiwan, once had a "sweet addiction" due to her love of candies. She was very attracted by the colorful wrapping paper and various flavors of sugar-coated candies, she has become a sugar addict under the constant unconscious intake. In this era of information explosion, the beauty function of social media, popular online restaurants, entertainment news, etc. She felt that such information was like an ice cream bucket in the freezer got hollowed out, but it was never refilled. At last, she left an open question worth our self reflection.

Gallery address: 13a New Street, Sheung Wan