Sparkle! After One Hundred

The Sparkle! exhibition series sets out to bring art into daily life by demonstrating the aspirations of the new generation of artists. The last Sparkle! exhibition in the series is After One Hundred put together by guest curator Cheng Yee-man (Gum).

Gum has invited artists to launch a series of ongoing and repeating creative processes to produce long-term documentation recording the changes that have taken place at specific sites at Oi! and in its vicinity over the past two years. Each of the artists has chosen a different entry point and engaged different communities and individuals to collaborate in their projects.

Peggy Chan applies Cyanotype, one of the oldest photographic printing methods, to explore the miracle whip of nature, time and self in One Hundred Species in Oi!; Price Chu draws the concept of stock futures into his creation Art Vending Machine; gathering information from audiences, Connie Lo has transformed it into a large puzzle in the form of sound and text in her project From one to hundred; Vinci Mok invited 100 guests to visit Oi! and used their experience to create If I won’t go to Oi!, who will go to Oi! – with your 100 dreams in Oi!; wen yau applies the painting techniques she learned from various Hong Kong artists each month and did plein-air in the neighbourhood areas in North Point district in her project Painting like an Artist: Plein Air – Artwork on Loan; based on different stories from his father’s life shared in an old North Point building, Wayne Wong presents Untitled to investigate the relationship between past, present and future; Yuen Chun-tai selected 36 specified sites to observe, inviting the community to get involved in completing the two-year 7.2° art project in the area within half a mile of Oi!.