Occupations

2015 - 2019

Installation view: Four Directions of Heaven, Argos Centre for Arts & Media, Brussels - 2017 — Installation view: *Four Directions of Heaven,* Argos Centre for Arts & Media, Brussels - 2017

Occupations is a series of photographic composites and installations on the complex histories and contentious territories that constitute Hong Kong. For quite some time Hong Kong had become a neutral point in my life in between Europe and Australasia There was place I’d come to love and where, I felt, I started to perceive nuances that reached far beyond its own realm, offering me a vantage point from which to observe a shifting world.

Drawing on the extensive personal archive assembled throughout many walks made over multiple years, the works testify on the city’s ever changing landscapes, environments and climates. The series cast a subjective look on those spaces where the private and the public merge, where the distinction of the man-made and the natural environment collapse, where the personal and the political seem inextricably entwined, where a multiplicity of temporalities and perspectives emerge.

Occupation #1 [Barricades} - 2015 - ed. of 5 - digital composite - inkjet print on cotton rag - 165 cm x 100 cm (65 in x 43.3 in) — *Occupation #1 [Barricades}* - 2015 - ed. of 5 - digital composite - inkjet print on cotton rag - 165 cm x 100 cm (65 in x 43.3 in)

Footnote - Colour HD video - silent - 1min20 - in loop

Presented on a 21-inch monitor, mounted on a low-lying frame, tilting it off the ground.

A short silent photographic animation, the video shows a "found object" during the Occupation of Hong Kong's Central district in October 2014. A book bearing the English title "Justice" with subscripts and references in Chinese, was left behind on the roadside of the main occupation site. A light breeze was turning its pages - a poetic summary of the stakes in the 3 month action in Hong Kong.

Occupation #3 [Song of Commons] v2 - 2017 - ed. of 3 - digital composite, pigment ink on archival paper mounted on 8 offset aluminium panels - 400cm x 120 cm x 4.5 cm — *Occupation #3 [Song of Commons]* v2 - 2017 - ed. of 3 - digital composite, pigment ink on archival paper mounted on 8 offset aluminium panels - 400cm x 120 cm x 4.5 cm

Occupation #8 [ A Forest of One] - 2017 - ed. of 5 - digital composite - inkjet print on archival mat paper - 240 cm x 145 cm (95 in x 57 in) - private view — *Occupation #8 [ A Forest of One]* - 2017 - ed. of 5 - digital composite - inkjet print on archival mat paper - 240 cm x 145 cm (95 in x 57 in) - private view

DETAIL of Occupation #8 [ A Forest of One] - 2017 - ed. of 5 - digital composite - inkjet print on archival mat paper - 240 cm x 145 cm (95 in x 57 in) — DETAIL of *Occupation #8 [ A Forest of One]* - 2017 - ed. of 5 - digital composite - inkjet print on archival mat paper - 240 cm x 145 cm (95 in x 57 in)

Occupancy - installation with 5 photographic prints and one video, Art-Ivism, MuseumCultuur CCStrombeek & SMAK Ghent, 2015 — *Occupancy* - installation with 5 photographic prints and one video, Art-Ivism, MuseumCultuur CCStrombeek & SMAK Ghent, 2015

Occupation #2 [Newtown] - 2015 - inkjet print on cotton rag - 135 cm x 90 cm — *Occupation #2 [Newtown]* - 2015 - inkjet print on cotton rag - 135 cm x 90 cm

Occupation #5 [Tentacle] - v1 - 2015 - digital composite - inkjet print on rag mounted - 185 cm x 90 cm (72.8 in x 35.4 in) — *Occupation #5 [Tentacle]* - v1 - 2015 - digital composite - inkjet print on rag mounted - 185 cm x 90 cm (72.8 in x 35.4 in)

Occupation #9 {Loose ties], 2019, in progress — *Occupation #9 {Loose ties]*, 2019, in progress