The Distance of Space
Visual Arts
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MAN Mei To draws persistently on “bodies” in every artistic movement. Burying herself in work, MAN ceaselessly manifests her observation throughout her ongoing practice. She inhaled miscellaneous chemicals for sculpting human molds; she operated a one-person temporary laundry service by which she hand-washed clothes and carried wet laundry to dry up the hill; she thus drifted through the city for an extensive collection of water traces. These are the many lessons in which she learns to be with different parts of her body and others’ bodies in order to attempt possible boundaries between body and the city by exhausting herself physically.
LOS, the “lost object syndrome” — a yet to be identified urban disease — will be the ground of her artistic creation in this event. Solely by imagining herself to be a patient in need of taking a break to escape from the rhythm of the city, she seeks calm to focus on investigating the many relations between the body and the city and, after all, to come to terms with human fragility in their environment. The result is to relentlessly provoke the narrative power of objects that her body bears.
This is her artistic pace for now. Hopefully she will find herself back in familiar environments to re-imagine a world fit for her survival.
Note：This event record is compiled from "Hong Kong Visual Arts Yearbook 2018" published by Department of Fine Arts, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
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