Project Description
The Fine Layers of Hong Kong History | 層層細看香港歷史
Description:
The「DesignXcel」Collaborator POSTalk and design freshmasonry Rice Mok share the same passion for paper products and urban culture, such affinities have linked the two together, sparking off two collaborative paper installations inspired by Whampoa Street and Queen’s Road East correspondingly. The collaboration serves as a reminder of the historical significance behind both streets in relation to the construction of local culture, which leads to today’s prosperity.
Taking paper as their medium, the two combined the spatial elements of Hong Kong and aesthetics of the West, making good use of both positive and negative spaces of paper carving to stack the three-dimensional paper art.
In her work ‘Whampoa Street’, Rice reflected on its shipbuilding industrial precinct, showing the raging waters in the foreground with the iconic Star Ferry and the industrial shipbuilding precinct in the background. For ‘Queen’s Road East’, Rice placed the silhouette of Queen Victoria in the centre, the significance lies in it being the first official street under British colonisation. Other elements are displayed in a concentric manner surrounding the Queen, suggesting how prosperity that comes after were originated by this single point in history.
From the raging waters to the iconic Star Ferry through to the ever growing prosperity of Hong Kong, the multi-layers of narrative space not only fully demonstrate the characteristics and refined beauty of paper, but they also show the intentions of POStalk and Rice to conserve Hong Kong history and culture.
《設計列陣》的合作夥伴POSTalk和設計新鮮人莫曉漩對紙製品和都市文化同樣充滿熱情，相似的愛好將兩者聯繫在一起，相應地令描摹黃埔街和皇后大道東的兩個合力打造紙製裝置面世。這次合作提醒人們，兩條街道背後的歷史意義與本地文化的建設有關，而這一切都為今天的繁榮作出了貢獻。
他們以紙為媒介，將香港的空間元素與西方美學結合起來，充分利用了紙雕的正負空間來疊加三維紙雕藝術。
在她的作品「黃埔街」中，莫同學呈現了黃埔街作為造船工業區的面貌，她在前面展示了洶湧的海水，而標誌性的天星小輪和造船工業區殿後。在「皇后大道中」，莫同學將維多利亞女王的輪廓置於中心位置，而街道重要性在於它是英國殖民統治下的第一條官方街道。其他元素以同心的方式置於女王周圍，點出之後的繁榮美滿都由歷史上的這一點開始。
從洶湧的海水到標誌性的天星小輪，再到香港日益蓬勃的發展進程，多層次的敘事空間不僅充分展示了紙張的特色和精緻美感，而且還展示了POSTalk和莫同學希望保育香港歷史文化的心志。
Design Graduate:
Mok Hiu Suen, Rice
Collaborator:
POSTalk
Email:
happ_zafara@hotmail.com
School:
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University 香港理工大學
