Join us for a conversation about time, photographic reenactment, and artistic collaboration with Leung Chi Wo + Sara Wong and Kwan Sheung Chi & Wong Wai Yin.
This talk brings together two artist duos from Hong Kong—Leung Chi Wo + Sara Wong and Kwan Sheung Chi & Wong Wai Yin—to discuss their engagement with time in their photographic practices. The artists reflect on the role of photography in shaping diverse personal, familial, community, and art historical narratives in their collaborative practices.
Drawing from old photographs in public and personal records, the artists trace the stories of ordinary individuals within broader historical narratives. They also discuss their works and projects, including Museum of the Lost (2013–), To Kwan Sheung Chi (2006), and To Wong Wai Yin (2007), exploring the intersection of individual and collective identities.
This conversation is moderated by Rebecca Tso and Lily Wong.
This conversation is organised in conjunction with the exhibition Countering Time, which invites four international artists and writers—Lee Weng Choy, Simon Leung, Gala Porras-Kim, and Merve Ünsal—to speculate on the immeasurability of time in archives.
Free and open to the public with registration.
This event will be conducted in Cantonese, with English simultaneous interpretation provided.
Leung Chi Wo + Sara Wong have been collaborating since 1992. They co-founded Para Site in Hong Kong in 1996. From 1999 to 2000, they participated in a residency in New York, where they premiered City Cookie, widely exhibited as part of fellowships from the Asian Cultural Council and the Hong Kong Arts Development Council. Leung and Wong exhibited at the Shanghai Biennale (2000), the Venice Biennale (2001), the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale (2018), and the Aichi Triennale (2019). They were featured in exhibitions at the Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre (2000), the São Paulo Museu da Imagem e do Som (2008), the Hong Kong Heritage Museum (2010), the Shanghai Center of Photography (2015), the National Museum of Singapore (2018), and the SCAD Museum of Art (2023). They were artists-in-residence at the Delfina Foundation, London (2021), and the Emily Harvey Foundation, Venice (2023). Leung earned an MA in the Department of Fine Arts at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Wong from the School of Architecture at the University of Hong Kong in 1997.
Kwan Sheung Chi obtained a Third Class Honours BA in Fine Art from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2003. He was rejected from CUHK’s MFA programme twice in 2004 and 2007. He was also a founding member of local art groups Hong Kong Arts Discovery Channel (HKADC), hkPARTg (Political Art Group), and Woofer Ten. In 2009, he was awarded the Starr Foundation Fellowship from the Asian Cultural Council to take part in an international residency programme in New York. He won the inaugural Hugo Boss Asia Art Award in 2013. His artworks haven’t been widely exhibited around the world, and he has never participated in any major exhibitions held internationally.
Wong Wai Yin earned a PhD in Chinese Art History from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2024. Her research focuses on social practice art in Hong Kong and gift theory. As an artist, Wong’s conceptual practice includes various media, such as painting, sculpture, collage, installation, and video. She explores various themes in her work, including autobiographical experience, episodic memory, and interventions with art histories.
Banner image: Leung Chi Wo + Sara Wong, Photographer Squatting in a Colour-Striped T-Shirt and Blue Sweatpants (detail), Lambda C-type print, 150 x 100 cm, 2019. Courtesy of the artists.
