Double-bill Exhibition – The Paradox of history: NT frontier closed area ╳ Painting with light: A Central without people
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In 2015, a double-decker bus quietly idles inside the Frontier Closed Area, on Crown Land. Out on the street of England in 1981, decommissioned on this island in 1997, it seemingly has captured the gradual lowering of the Union Jack in our city until its last time. Coincidence? Or history?
Also in the closed area, stands a discoloured motto board in the front of a classroom of an abandoned village school; on it writes, “Don’t live in the past, but live out your best today.”
Perhaps history is only illusionary. Or, it is some kind of melancholy and loss as one “fails to cut away, fiddling into disarray”? But, if there’s no dialogue between today and yesterdays, will tomorrow ever dawn?
This New Territories frontier closed area with the burden of history on its back, that lets us glimpse into the paradox vaguely visible, will it be still there tomorrow? How about the New Territories, Hong Kong……?
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