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Art preview: it's still-life, but not as we know it

Hugh Chow

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Some of the show's discarded artworks that serve as social commentary.


 

Part installation and part social commentary, the "Not Yet Art Fair" isn't your standard canvas and canapés affair. Several hundred neglected, abandoned and discarded works - what its curators Cheng Yee-man and Clara Cheung Ka-lei describe as "cultural leftovers" - are on display in a 400 sq ft space inside a walk-up in Prince Edward.

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Landscapes, still-life studies and intriguing abstract images are all represented in this self-styled "conceptual art exhibition".

The works are roughly stapled together for easy reference. Many are unfinished. The canvas is still visible on some paintings, while others never progressed beyond a ghostly sketch.

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The artists - workshop students and "art jam" participants - don't want them. Some blame limited space at home while others have simply lost interest, according to Cheung.

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