SC Gallery is proud to present Stanley Shu ‘s solo exhibition “Love is all you need!” from 26/9-29/10.
Stanley is one of Hong Kong’s newly-bred visual artists. He is adept in applying bright-coloured bands, hues, shadows and construction to create an overall atmosphere. Through a virtual scene and natural overlapping of sights of mountains and plains, Mr Shum leads spectators into a resplendent and yet vast new world.
From his family background, Stanley Shum looks at the changes in social development. He presents a combined visual story of himself and his social groups. He uses his father’s swimming from China to Hong Kong, his childhood memories and his family’s emigration as his creation background and the breadth of this exhibition. He hopes that, in this confusing and scary social situation, people will reshape their genuine identities, reflect on their personal and social relationships, and explore a new picture of life in the new world.
The light and yet extremely heavy exhibition slogan “Love is all you need” is the core of this exhibition. It is a new understanding and introspection of “love”, which is simple and yet complex. It touches on the struggle of where affection should heed in the new era.
”Love is all you need” are lyrics of a single of the Beatles of the U.K. <All You Need Is Love>. The song exhibits how people treat one another with optimism, positivism and simplicity in the new hippies’ era. It emphasizes the human strength of mutual-care and supporting one another unconditionally.
The exhibition will disambiguate this song’s lyrics and introduce another perspective. It will argue that love is necessary in a restrained society and query whether the affection is genuine and whether there is room for choosing love and affection.

The exhibition opens next Monday to Wed for private preview , opening cocktail on Oct 1, Saturday

Gallery address: 1902, Sungib Industrial Centre, Wong Chuk Hang