Bicycle Theives
Visual Arts
Description
Description
Artist Luke Ching shares Italo Calvino’s fable about a city in which every citizen is a thief: they maintain everyday life by breaking into neighbours’ homes and stealing from one another until the arrival one day of an “honest man” who does not steal, throwing the town’s ecology into disequilibrium. Some continue stealing while others close their doors and hire workers to steal for them. Eventually, wealth gaps and class divisions start to emerge, and a security system is established.
Bicycle Thieves is interested in the fine line between sharing and stealing. Paying tribute to the eponymous Italian neorealist film in which a worker spends all his family savings to buy the bicycle needed for a new job but ends up losing the bike at the hands of a thief on his first day of work, the group exhibition extends the film’s concern to a contemporary context and highlights individuals’ precarious status as situated within increasingly tricky relations to various institutions and systems.
Artists：Chang Yuchen; Luke Ching Chin Wai; Stephanie Comilang; Dark Fluid; Dries Depoorter; Display Distribute; Hong Kong Artist Union; Firenze Lai; Miao Jiaxin; Yunyu “Ayo” Shih; Eason Tsang Ka Wai; Andrew Norman Wilson; Wong Kit Yi; Lantian Xie; Xu Tan; Yao Qingmei
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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