Exhibition of 60 memorabilia from Hong Kong's Occupy movement recalls 'passion and creative energy' of pro-democracy protests
One year on from the start of the 79-day sit-ins, an exhibition commemorating the Umbrella Movement opens on Saturday
An exhibition of iconic objects collected from the sites of last year's Occupy protests will open on Saturday, two days before the first anniversary of the start of the pro-democracy movement.
Hereafter: Objects from the Umbrella Movement will showcase 60 objects out of a total of 380 pieces collected from protest sites in Admiralty, Causeway Bay and Mong Kok.
The organisers, Umbrella Movement Visual Archive, said they retrieved the objects before police began clearance operations in December to end the 79-day sit-ins.
Sampson Wong Yu-hin, one of the organisers, said the passion and creative energy of the protests were unprecedented, and the objects served as a snapshot of the movement.
"We collected perhaps just a quarter of all the objects but they were enough to demonstrate the diversity and creative power of the people," Wong said.
Exhibits will include a yellow banner with the words "I want genuine universal suffrage", that was hung on Harcourt Road. Also on display will be a collection of drawings depicting political figures raising a yellow umbrella, which became a symbol of defiance after protesters used umbrellas to shield themselves from police pepper spray and tear gas.