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Lee Ka-sing 李家昇
City at the End of Time 在時間盡頭的城市
1992
Lee Ka-sing's City at the End of Time is a collage that juxtaposes several elements: an aerial view of Hong Kong’s Kai Tak airport, a landscape, and a poster depicting Guanyin, the Chinese goddess of mercy, holding a child. The images used in the work are saturated in a rich crimson pigment and superimposed over one another almost to the point of abstraction. The composition exemplifies Lee’s interest in using printed illustrations taken from newspapers, magazines, and textbooks to create layered compositions that express the visual culture of the city. The work, which takes its title from a bilingual edition of an eponymous book of poetry by Leung Ping Kwan, alludes to Hong Kong’s position in the early 1990s, just before the city’s handover from British to Chinese sovereignty in 1997. When Chek Lap Kok International Airport opened in Hong Kong in 1998, the old airport in Kai Tak ceased operating. City at the End of Time engages with this process of transformation and transition that defined life in Hong Kong in the 1990s.
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