Untitled (Drawing from Memory but Not Exactly)

inkjet print on vinyl stickers, dimensions variable, 2012

 



 





















The first piece Untitled (Drawing from Memory but Not Exactly) was conceived out of the impressions from the interviews. Leung shared with the interviewees some of the memories of a handful of artists who have become the subject of this drawing work. Their presence in the façade of the Hong Kong Arts Centre has been an irony to the function of an art institution that has been striving to present art at present. The photos found in old catalogues of artists Josh Hon, Annie Chan, Comyn Mo and Tsang Wai Hang who were once active in Hong Kong in the 1980s and 90s were the reference for this drawing.


Artist statement

“It is an exploration of names that had once appeared in my artistic journey. Those unheard of names, acquaintances, and friends… are now far off from my life. What is the percentage of names that remain remembered among all those we come across? It is such a nice excuse to revisit the list of the forgotten in the name of art. And he is there and I would like to make a drawing of him.”

— Leung Chi Wo