Ho Sin Tung: Swampland
Visual Arts
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Swamps are not the most scenic of places. In fact, they have long unsettled the human imagination as mysterious terrains lurking with ecological, or even supernatural, dangers. From the swamp of Lerna that lives the nine-headed Hydra in Greek mythology, to the marsh that swallowed Marion Crane’s dead body in Psycho, there is a wealth of literature and films that reveals the spectrum of our swamp horrors. Neither entirely land nor water, fecund but untamed, swamps are unpredictable. Our fear of swamps is the fear of the unknown. Humans create systems and structures, invent technologies, appeal to higher powers, and philosophise existential questions all to give the world a sense of order and answers. But as the news would tell us every day, the world is as volatile as ever. Swampland is aptly the evocative title for Ho Sin Tung’s exhibition that grapples with life’s different uncertainties.
The artist’s practice has always favoured meticulous drawings, often executed with a humble pencil, that depict her internal fantasies and intimate emotions. This new body of work, however, features more objects and installations that engage us with greater immediacy and participation. This shift in medium is perhaps due to an expansion in subject matters relating to history, culture, and ideology, that deal more with the state of the world and the human condition, rather than the state of Ho’s mind.
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