The first studio that I've visited was, of course, Sara Tse's Gallery Mill, as she was my classmate and roommate in the university. Her usual and refine idea on how to turn an object into a tool for memory impresses me. She has accepted ceramic as the medium for her artistic creations and started transforming her memories of numerous garments, fabrics and toys into ceramic sculptures.
As an artist, her works are quite personal. Audience can trace back the things or sediments belonged to her chilhood and experience. However, her childhood was also the childhood of people born in the 70s. Even though experience was different for different people, objects were more or less similar. Thus when looking at her artworks, like the ceramic bear, the chess, can also arouse our memory, just as a collective memory, of the days we grew up, . However, of course, I do appreciate Sara's consistency in her art creation and idea, as a more mature artist, I do really hope to see her works with more refreshing idea and further development.
Then another studio impressed me was Chow Chun's Fai's Exhibition. The contents of his artworks display scenes of famous local movies by his brushes can well demonstrate his intentions of using narratives to tell Hong Kong popular cultures. The scenes painted are the memories of the popular mass and illustrates the the lives (seeing local movies)of most people in Hong Kong.
In Fotanian 2009, I can see that this exhibition becomes more and more well-organized as many sponsorships are willing to support it, in terms of supporting Hong Kong artists, as well as maKing profits. Some studios are shown in the form of Gallery, which make the whole thing become more commercial as most artworks are displayed with a pricelist. However, as a fine art graduated audience, I do appreciate the exhibition which can promote art and support local artists, I am much appreciate those studio can reflect artists' daily life of art creation, instead of those studios emphasis of the sale of art.
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