Continuing Migration: The Shifting Lens to Look Through
Visual Arts
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In our time, the notion of migration is constantly shifting. Different modes of migration entail different situations that one has to encounter. Through the eyes of artists, this exhibition seeks various approaches to the understanding of “migration”. Under the socio-economic-political regimes promoted by government, the three artists (Enoch Cheng, Julia Sarisetiati, and Ming Wong) position themselves in the specific scenarios that citizens from diverse backgrounds experience while in the state of transit. Instead of providing an absolute definition of “migration”, the artists borrow the lens of others, in order to develop a methodology for thinking through the complexity of “defining”.
Berlin based Singaporean artist Ming Wong is disguised as a “cultural ambassador” on a visit to Senegal, the first West African country to join the Belt and Road Initiative, to reflect on the Chinese government’s global development strategy that has influenced many African people to move to China – or vice versa.
Hong Kong artist Enoch Cheng adopts the fictional role of a pseudo-social scientist to observe how the urban city impacts the way migrants must improvise their roles in order to participate in the construction for the future.
Indonesian artist Julia Sarisetiati assumes the role of an app-developer to collaborate with a team comprising a designer, IT developer, visual artist, copywriter, video makers, and researchers, to invent an online platform for knowledge sharing between Indonesian migrant workers who are currently abroad and those who have returned home.
Artists：Enoch Cheng; Julia Sarisetiati; Ming Wong
Note：This event record is compiled from "Hong Kong Visual Arts Yearbook 2019" published by Department of Fine Arts, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
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