Shanghai Street Artspace
Ends Jun 12
Be warned: Wing Shya's exhibition, set in the heart of Yau Ma Tei is nothing like the shows in the glam or slick art galleries on Hollywood Road. Wing's installation art - grainy photo-graphs and illustrations presented on flimsy A4 colour printouts - evokes emotions of love, loss, desire and nostalgia.
Possibly in response to the neighbourhood, which is known for its old buildings and crowded, dirty streets, Wing has framed the prints on the wall with thick beige duct tape (with all the precision of a three-year old). Slapped together in a series of printouts, a woman is caught in motion, dancing in a grimy back alley. Another image from the film Eros is a close up of a woman's chest in black lingerie spread over 20 panels.
Morphed into the cardboard wall is a small television playing a 15-minute short that's unmistakably Wong Kar Wai-esque. Wing is the exclusive photographer for the director's films, which include 2046, In the Mood for Love and Happy Together.
Entitled Lost and Found, the video has three intertwining stories with the theme that when you lose something you also find something.