31 Women Artists - Hong Kong

Curated by Caroline Ha

6 May - 20 August 2022, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery (10 Chancery Ln, Central Central and Western Hong Kong)

 
 

10 Chancery Lane Gallery is proud to present 31 Women Artists – Hong Kong, curated by Caroline Ha Thuc.

31 Women Exhibition was a 1943 exhibition organized by Peggy Guggenheim in her new gallery, Art of this Century, in New York City. One of the first exhibitions dedicated to the works of women, the show was a breakthrough. 31 Women Artists – Hong Kong Exhibition is not intended to be a feminist exhibition: ideally, there would be no need for all-women exhibitions, yet it seems meaningful today to acknowledge the practice of women Hong Kong artists and to show the extraordinary vitality of their works. Mixing different generations of artists working in diverse contexts and engaged in various practices, this 2022 exhibition aims above all at celebrating the right to be truly oneself.

Photos source: 10 Chancery Lane Gallery

Jaffa latest work “Landscape Behind the Door”, is a collaborated patchwork by a housewife and Lam herself that explores loneliness, freedom, and self-identity. As viewers peer through a small hole in the middle of the quilt made up of recycled umbrella fabric to look at the sunshine and green landscape in a video projection, they become a part of the artwork but sensory audio, violet color, and the pleasure of voyeur experience the blurred definitions between the public and private, and loneliness and intimacy. Jaffa expressed our society defines a person’s role according to gender, and we accepted it as the moral standard. However, have you ever thought about what will and can a housewife do if she has the freedom to redecide her life again?

Jaffa Lam

Landscape Behind The Door

2022
Recycled umbrella fabric, video (1:55 min), Stainless Steel
170 x 120 x 37 cm

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