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 an ongoing series of photographic composites and installations on the complex histories and contentious territories that constitute Hong Kong. Drawing on the extensive personal archive assembled throughout a number of 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