Hong Kong Museum of Art
From tomorrow until June 3
The next time you hear someone speak Chinglish - a mixture of Chinese and English - don't sneer. They're actually preserving a unique heritage. That's the Hong Kong Museum of Art's take on it, anyway.
Chinglish - Hong Kong Art Exhibition is a 100 per cent local show featuring works from the museum collection, exploring language and literacy through visuals.
This exhibition is a search for contemporary examples of Hong Kong visual language in art. On show are Blue Puk's English in Chinese, an interesting study of Chinese slang.
'In the past, east-meets-west used to be the dominant narrative of Hong Kong culture,' says the museum's curator of modern art, Eve Tam Mei-yee. 'However, as revealed in Puk's work, [her concept of neither Chinese nor English] is perhaps a better description.'