Hio Lam Kylie, Sio

Curatorial Statement:

Do you ever winced from seeing an image of a needle on the floor? Or feel anxious from reading clutter notes? Our eyes are like a sensitive detector which they pay attention to subtle things in life and convey what we’ve observed to our brain. What we see may affect how we feel. To ‘view’ and ‘feel’ are essential components in a gallery setting as they assist viewers in reading a piece of art. The Sensorial Resonance: Observing and Experiencing Negative Emotion exhibition surveys the sensory interaction between the vision and emotion. 

The Sensorial Resonance is a sensory experimental exhibition that studies whether the audience’s mood can be stimulated by the works they see and how their emotions resonate. Clicking through the exhibited images, the audience will be taken to a sensory provocative video. These time-based works explore the artists’ artistic practices under the current pandemic. The artists used contemporary techniques in their work and hope that the audience can resonate with their feeling of emptiness, irritation and dissatisfaction by watching the videos. 

Curatorial Statement:

Art is the process of creation, and so is food. Yet, waste is the ultimate form of all creations. No matter how beautiful the creation is, they can never escape the fate of becoming trash. 

The consumers’ market has actively wasted products in landfills. Foods that are sold in supermarkets are usually with ideal ripeness, shape, colour, or size. The market has made these perfect products into a special commodity and leads to a fashion that consumers value appearance more than the taste or quality of the product. Therefore, exhibiting works from artists who have similar concerns, we had held an exhibition on food waste issues and how consumers’ preference for food will affect the market.