Art for thought displayed at the Hong Kong House’s Dialogue with Nature exhibition
- The “Hong Kong House” features artworks created in a collaboration between residents in Tsunan, Japan, Hong Kong and artist anothermountainman.
- Authentic and introspective, the artworks inspire the viewers to rethink human relationship with nature and savour every mindful moment in life.
[The content of this article has been produced by our advertising partner.]
Under the theme Dialogue with Nature, two groups of artworks, Painting by God and A Bowl of Life, are displayed at the Hong Kong House, at the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale 2022. The driving force of this exhibition, renowned artist anothermountainman (Stanley Wong), was selected through an open call of proposal by the joint adjudication panel of Hong Kong and Japan in 2020.
Painting by God is a multi-faceted ongoing art project featuring installations, workshops, photography and sharing, while the A Bowl of Life project engages strangers from different locations in a ‘dialogue’ and stimulates them to contemplate life by symbolically featuring rice bowls as the planters for various floras.
“I chose these two projects because I wanted to take one step further beyond art exhibition and exchange. I wanted to bring out the views of nature from the Tsunan residents as well as those from the Hongkongers,” said anothermountainman. “With the projects as the starting point, coupled with the participation of residents of the two locations, I wanted to make the multimedia exhibition more three-dimensional and representative of multiple perspectives.”
Not only being an artist, anothermountainman also played an active role of curating: he led workshops with participating residents in Tsunan via live-streaming; photographed the plants grown in Hong Kong and selected the images for display; and engaged in conversations with the participants and shared his thoughts throughout the creative process both via live-streaming and by writing passages. All the thoughts and responses (trilingual in Japanese, Chinese and English) shared by the participants and anothermountainman are displayed in various forms, including exhibits’ labels, the exhibition pamphlet and dedicated digital catalogues accessed through QR codes in the pamphlet.
“I’ve engaged with the participants to convey the themes, live for the moment and mindfulness as well as the idea of giving and receiving, and the feeling of co-existence,” he added.
