Exciting news, Coconauts. The Polaroid craze is coming back to Hong Kong (briefly).
Throughout March and April, the Blindspot Gallery will be hosting an instant photography exhibition showcasing the works of 10 Hong Kong artists from the 1980s to 2000s.
As visitors admire the original pieces on display, they can reminisce about the “coolness” of lugging around that enormous boxy camera, or ending every event with a bag full of little square snaps…
The exhibition strives to show how western art trends and icons, films and ideologies – including Andy Warhol, pop art, abstraction and futurism – influenced this experimental artistic period in Hong Kong during the late ‘90s.
Featured local artists include Blues Wong, whose work reflects his political concerns over the 1997 handover; Hisun Wong, the only Hong Kong artist to work exclusively in instant photography; and Wong Wo-bik, whose pieces embodies the east-meets-west aesthetic.
The works of Choi Yan-chi, Almond Chu, Joseph Fung, Hon Chi-fun, Lai Lon-hin, Lee Ka-sing, and Wing Shya will also be on display.
All artists will be present at the opening reception on Saturday, Mar. 5.
What: A Permanent Instant: instant photography from 1980s-2000s by Hong Kong artists
When: Mar. 5 – Apr. 23, 2016 / Opening event: 4.30pm-6pm, Mar. 5
Where: Blindspot Gallery, 15/F, Po Chai Industrial Building, 28 Wong Chuk Hang Road, Wong Chuk Hang. (Google Maps)
