RMA Institute offers a look inside Hong Kong’s infamous Chungking Mansions, the tumultuous home for thousands of immigrants and their itinerant lives.
In a new exhibition by Vietnam-based photographer Nana Chen, visitors can explore the mansions in images designed to capture “hiraeth,” which is a Welsh word for “homesickness for a home to which you cannot return, a home which maybe never was; the nostalgia, the yearning, the grief for the lost places of your past.”
4,000 people from around the world are crammed into the Chungking Mansions along with a jumble of businesses and services, all in one big apartment complex. It’s a crazy and messy place, but Chen captures its beauty through her photographs.
FIND IT:
“Hiraeth” photographs of Chungking Mansions
RMA Institute
238 Sukhumvit 22 Soi Sainamthip 2
9:30am – 7pm, now – July 13 (closed Monday)
BTS Phrom Phong
