Hong Kong Arts Centre, Wan Chai | The Landscape as Chronicle Photography & Painting Showcase @ Jockey Club Atrium

Description

“The Landscape as Chronicle” presents the multifaceted reflections on “landscape” by photography and painting students from the Higher Diploma and Bachelor of Arts programmes at Hong Kong Art School. The exhibition approaches landscape as a visual method, a psychological structure, and a vessel through which memory and emotion take form. In the act of viewing, light and space act upon the body and its sensations, shaping not only what is seen but how seeing itself unfolds. Once a landscape enters memory, it loosens from its original geographic context and transforms into a personal narrative through which the subject understands their relationship with the world. Landscape also gestures toward the psychological and the imagined; through shifts in colour and composition, the works visualize emotions, thoughts, and inner states, turning landscape into a symbolic space of mental activity and an extension of the inner world. Within this framework, landscape is no longer a representation of natural appearance. It becomes a field where emotion, memory, and subjective experience intertwine—a way of viewing, sensing, and thinking through the world.

Participating Artists: CHWE Shuk Fong, HUNG Ka Wing, LAM Ching Laam, LI Tsz Yau

Curators: TSANG Chui Mei, WAN Chi Chung