Lui Chun Kwong

Lui Chun Kwong’s latest series of minimalist paintings are exhibited together with some of his hobby craftworks. In order to lead the visitors into Lui’s world of painting, handmade wooden chairs and stools are also brought from his house, turning Para Site into ‘Lui‘s Household’, presenting a normal domestic environment. Visitors are also customers, they are free to browse and buy, criticize and bargain on the lower-quality ‘goods’, as if being in a flea market.

The exhibition is not only an introduction of Lui’s creative space to the visitors, and to juxtapose these direct or indirect elements related to his paintings, but it is also a display of the multiple sources of inspiration for Lui’s practice. With the rapid advancement of electronic technology, where virtual communications are frequent and complex, the way of conveying emotions changed from simple physical contact to distant virtual conversations. Lui is not used to this new reality, instead, he continues with his systematic and continuous practice, where he carefully handcrafts his works. Perhaps what Lui truly needs is a hug for a simple exchange of emotion.

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