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Winsome Dumalagan Wong: The Portraits Lying Aside at Current Plans


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This two-part series — ‘Fallen Portraits on the Soil’ and ‘The Rite of Passing By: I didn’t see them but I saw them’ — is set in public housing. The installation portrays the overseen and questions the use of materials and images, and the limitations of photography itself.

In the first set, the viewer gazes into beauty and decay, eternity and ephemerality, of flowers secretly planted by the residents, and of dead insects; The second set draws on a large number of images taken since 2017 of discarded household items. The viewer considers the former use of the objects, and the previous owners.

Mon to Sun 11:00 – 19:00

Venue address: 2/F, Tak On House, 13 Wong Chuk Street, Sham Shui Po