Money Supply
Visual Arts
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“Money Supply” 《貨幣供應》, a show by Yasmine Huang, opened on a quiet Saturday on 11 May 2019, to explore how art and social criticism may work together. The opening gathered a dozen of spontaneous visitors who readily turned her concern into ramifications of many burning questions of art beyond politics.
According to Yasmine (HUANG Anlan), many HK photographers have attempted the portrayal of Canton Road in TST (Tsim Sha Tsui). Some of them have focused on “the grey goods traders (水貨客) and their open luggage … demonstrating the conflict between traders from Mainland China and the local people.”
“My curator and I … decided to juxtapose successful insurance agents with boutonniere and agents doing cold sale on Canton Road.” Yasmine, born in Guangzhou and graduated with a BA in Creative Media in Hong Kong, clarifies the objective of Leverage.
“Although I think my identity matters when dealing with such a complicated relationship between China and Hong Kong, what I contribute in Leverage is more like a research-based investigation” of a phenomenon know as Gang piao (港漂), literally, Mainland fresh graduates’ floating (making a living) in Hong Kong. Yasmine found that visitors of her works inevitably turned their discussion to politics, which incited her to think seriously of how to deal with political conflicts more sophisticatedly in her future art practices.
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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