It's dinner time -- family matters before the dinner table

喫飯啦 ﹣餐桌前的家

- Cheung Yu-tsz

"Wash your hands before dinner" (Cheung Yu-tsz / 2010)

 

Searching through my childhood memories, besides roaming around with my buddy friends, I find dinner with my family leaving the strongest impressions. My mother, the housewife of the family, cooked every meal for me and my brother.

I especially like summer-night dinners. Dad was often gone for business. Mom would temporarily abandon the family dinner table, which was mostly used for visitors, and, instead, use the little table by the doorside where we did homework to serve dinner. Mom liked to leave the door to our flat open, and so brother and I sat around that little folding table, sensing the summer breeze from the corridor, smelling the food mom just brought out and ate happily……Those were to me moments of felicity.

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Simplicity of form, economy of presentation, tenacity of concept – preview notes #1 for FPC's 1st exhibition

至微的美學經濟/極盡的概念發揮


– Linda C.H. Lai

During the count-down fortnight to our inauguration exhibition (opening May 22), the FPC team had a series of studio meetings, dubbed ‘Studiologue’, in which we went through issues of artistic rigor of individual works, logistics, communication plans, display arrangement and so on, to the last possible details.

On May 11 (Tuesday), we met in the studio to get a general preview of the artworks each of us would present, matching concepts, purposes, display strategies and construction procedures. After that, I proposed the following guiding principles:

*simplicity of form, economy of presentation, tenacity of concept
*leave no component that is not integral to the concept: remove anything that is decorative and distracting …

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“Archiving Fingers, Hands, Faces & Anonymities” – FPC’s 1st exhibition coming soon

FPC’s grand opening exhibition on May 22, 2010 (Saturday – 6:00pm) will showcase the latest works-in-progress of its core members Linda Lai, Lilian Fu, Jolene Mok and Cheung Yu-tsz. 

拾荒。偵探。遊戲。定位。

FPC’s 1st exhibition_May22, 2010 (pdf)

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