Is greed good? For artist couple Clara Cheung Ka-lai and Gum Cheng Yee-man, the desire for more has helped them double the size of C&G Artpartment - their independent art space cum studio in Prince Edward - which they set up less than 18 months ago. As well as teaching, the duo now run their duplex gallery, curate their own shows and create art.
'It might be because of greediness that we finally got here,' says Cheng at their new exhibition, Greedy?, which opened yesterday. 'I admit I'm a greedy man. You are bound to be greedy if you are really into something ... you indulge your passion.'
With the global financial crisis in full swing, the two want to explore the many aspects of greed. They roped in four other young artists - Movana Chen Li-yun, Jaspar Lau Kin-wah, Jeff Leung Chin-fung and Michael Lee Hong Hwee - to help them with their investigation.
The show will feature seven artworks including painting, installation, sculpture, video and photo-print.
None of the group are full-time artists, which, according to Cheng, demonstrates the 'typical kind of greedy artists who want to have it all at once'.
The artists' brief is to give their interpretation on what it means to be greedy. Artist-curator Chen is known for her clothes made out of shredded paper strips. For Body Container, she collected investment brochures from different banks, tore out pages and shredded them into strips to make her pieces.