Art review: YY9 Gallery celebrates 10 years of breaking the mould
YY9 Gallery has brought together works by 100 artists - all of whom have shown works there since it opened in 2005 - for a show celebrating its first 10 years in operation.
YY9 Gallery's inaugural exhibition in 2005 featured Chinese University of Hong Kong graduate and ceramicist Chris Lo Sze-lim.
A decade later, it is his three-piece Invitation to the Murkiness that appropriately takes centre-stage in this celebratory group show.
Housed in three separate antique wooden boxes, three words are hammered into leather - "Whispering" (pictured), "Secret" and "Disconnected". These are sensitively paired with three slabs of stoneware, respectively depicting a set of earphones; a slashed ribbon of clay, resembling a closed mouth; and an impression of a smartphone.
The barriers of time and distance have been further diminished by technology over these 10 years.
But, despite mobile and instant internet communication, such basic emotions of nostalgia, longing, loneliness, and memory, especially for "past loves", are unchanged - if not intensified - by our ease of communication.