What will post-Covid-19 Hong Kong look like? Young artists offer their insight
In an exhibition at Art and Culture Outreach, 11 emerging creative talents present their visions of tomorrow that were developed though a mentorship programme
The exhibition features the works of the 11 mentees, chosen from 68 applicants who answered an open call by cultural magazine Zolima CityMag last July inviting submissions from anyone below the age of 26 in three media: written word, photography and video. Each participant carried out a five-month dialogue with their mentor to develop their ideas about how Covid-19 has fundamentally changed Hong Kong’s social, economic and cultural life, with production costs covered by a grant from the Design Trust.
Generosity, solidarity, youth, creativity and tomorrow are the ingredients of the show, says Nicole Andrianjaka de Surville, founder and editor-in-chief of Zolima CityMag.
“I realised I was much more interested in the unseen changes that the pandemic caused rather than the ones we can physically see. More specifically, the unseen changes that it had triggered within people and their relationships,” says La’O.