The Only Day - an exhibition in two parts
by artist Lau Chi-Chung
Part 1 Exhibition - an abandoned house in Cheung Chau
In the city where we live, there are endless knock downs and reconstructions, more and more places where we might only be able to learn and see from history books.
I have therefore decided to have my Part 1 Exhibition in a no man’s land, an old big building that stands on a hill. I will exhibit my work for only one day in this old building, which has been abandoned for many years.
I will show my installation work by interacting with the natural environment of the residence, for example, the interior of the building, the garden and woods inside the house. Everyone who participate in the exhibition will be brought to this special location.
The focus of this collection of work is the “abandoned objects”. Starting from 2000, during my every single journey visiting the ruins in Hong Kong, I always bring back some stuff from the abandoned objects, and I recreated new pieces of work by using these “rubbish”. The difference in time and the recycling of the abandoned pieces, new life has now been refilled into each object. All of them seems so intimate and familiar to me, and bring back many memories, yet they are all strange objects to me. They are presenting stories in the past and the present, reflecting the wounds in each story.
Since the exhibiting place contains both history and new possibilities, everyone can participate in this exhibition by creating some work impromptu at the location. Part 1 Exhibition will last for one day only.
Part 2 Exhibition - Kapok Gallery
This part of exhibition will be taken place at Kapok, I will exhibit work from the Part 1 Exhibition as well as all the participants who has taken part, for they have already become parts of the Part 2 Exhibition. Together, new pieces of work will be displayed in this exhibition, all work will appear in a totally different space from the last time.
As for the exhibiting place Kapok, it used to be an abandoned area (a garage that afterwards has rented by a French guy as his present office, also serves as the purpose of a shop and gallery.) A place that is full of stories will interact with the installation work, therefore inspire visitors to discuss and imagine the impact on “reuse” an abandoned environment.
Part 2 Exhibition aims to present a different form of expression to its audience, trying to explore the possibilities of exhibition format and how the public relates to it, especially in such a rapid changing society. What emerges is a series of works appear in different “abandoned” space that show the development of our city, reusing the old and new sites as a media of creation, contrast from an old abandoned residence to an area that is given with a new function and identity, to look at what we have left behind in our development.
Exhibition Dates
Part 2 Exhibition
Location : Kapok – B/F, 9 Dragon Road, Tin Hau Temple Road, Tin Hau, Hong Kong
Tel : 254 99 254
Email: info@ka-pok.com
Date: March 1 - 31st, 2007
Opening on March 3rd. 6pm
Artist profile : Lau Chi-Chung
Cheung Chau(ese), Hong Kong
Lau Chi-Chung has been working in TV commercial productions as an art director.
He studied interior design and was graduated in England.
He likes cinema, photography and travelling, and obsessed with space, history and images.
Studied in interior design allows him to gain more rational thoughts towards space as well as sensibilities.
He has been working on independent movies, filming and photography, mainly concern with stories of different places about Hong Kong, shooting in the ruins area, and creations with abandoned objects.
He is also interested in the connections between different periods and himself.
He started to walk around the city, photograph and collect abandoned pieces since 2000, as a media to get to know his home city again.
More works by Lau Chi Chung can be viewed on his website
www.lauchichung.com
Casting an unconventional eye on the futile things in life – that’s what makes P-A Gillet tick. 
