Curatorial Statement:

This research-retrospective surveyed the meandering paths Choi Yan-chi has walked through: from painting to the deconstruction of the genre, from the play with material to installation, from photography and video to performance, from the quest for the burden of “Chinese-ness” to the struggle to move into conceptual art… The many trajectories mapped out in Choi’s works and pursuits speak of not only the artist’s soul-searching journey for integration and contextualization in her own art practices, but also, reflexively, the many crises and opportunities emerging in the history of the visual arts in Hong Kong. Other than pure documentation of Choi’s works and writings by and about her, the artist will re-create some of her past works to build a dialogue between the past and the present. [Re-]Fabrication, therefore, replaces conclusive retrospection and, instead, opens up more questions integral to the practice of an artist. Perhaps, ultimately and rather implicitly, the research process, the making of the catalogue, and the negotiation for [re-]fabrication comment on the status quo of art education in the territory... [on-line full text]

Official Sites:

Para/Site Art Space // 1a Space

Press Release:

English // 中文

Discussion:

1 (Jeff Leung)

Lai's dialogues with Choi: Curator's journal:

[read] (published in the exhibition catalogue)