Minute Emotions

MAN Fung-yi (Hong Kong, China)

Man Fung-yi, graduated from the Department of Fine Arts, at the CUHK in 1990. She obtained her Master of Fine Arts degree at the CUHK in 1999. Man established CHIC Studio (Artists' House) and devoted herself to art creation and art education after her graduation. From 1999-2001, she worked as a part-time lecturer at the Department of Fine Arts. During 2005-07, she continued her postgraduate studies in culture and religion at the CUHK. She has participated in numerous exhibitions, including "Century．Women Art Exhibition" (National Art Museum of China), in 1998; "The Wall: Reshaping Contemporary Chinese Art Exhibition" (the University at Buffalo Art Galleries & the China Millennium Monument), in 2005, "30 years Chinese 'Abstract' Art" (Art Museums of Barcelona, Palma and Madrid), in 2008. She was awarded the Freeman Foundation Fellowship for Asian Artists, U. S. A. in 1997; and the Critic Award, Century．Women Art Exhibition, Beijing, China in 1998. She was the Award Winner of the Hong Kong Art Biennial Exhibition in 2003.Her works are collected by the Hong Kong Museum of Art, the Hong Kong Heritage Museum, the Nanjing Art Museum, the Foreign Cultural Exchange Association of China, the Hong Kong Housing Dept., the Hong Kong Airport Authority, the MTR Corporate, corporate and private collectors.

MOK Yat-san (Hong Kong, China)

Mok Yat-san, graduated from the Department of Fine Arts, at the CUHK in 1993. He obtained his Master of Fine Arts degree at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts (First Honour) in 2004. Mok established CHIC Studio (Artists' House) and devoted himself to art creation and art education in 1995. From 2007, he worked as an instructor at the Department of Fine Arts, the CUHK. He has participated in numerous exhibitions, including "HK Unveiled Contemporary Art in the SAR"( Atting House), in 2008; "Hong Kong International Contemporary Art Fair Exhibition" (Hong Kong Exhibition Centre), in 2007; "Borrowed Stones: Sculptures by MOK Yat-san" (Grotto Fine Art), in 2007. And he was the recipient of several awards, including the Selected Award in the Competition for Public Art Project of Yat Tung Estate, Tung Chung, co-presented by the Leisure & Cultural Services Dept. & Housing Dept. in 2004 & 2001; the Selected Award for the Competition on Design of Decorative Works of Art for the Hong Kong Central Library, organised by the Leisure & Cultural Services Dept. in 2000; the Third Prize (Hong Kong), Olympic Art and Sport Contest 2000, organized by the International Olympic Committee in 2000; and the Freeman Foundation Fellowship for Asian Artists, U. S. A. in 1997. His art works are collected by New Asia College, The CUHK, the Hong Kong Museum of Art, the Hong Kong Heritage Museum, the Hong Kong Housing Dept., the Hong Kong Airport Authority, the MTR Corporate, housing estates, hotels, schools, corporate and private collectors.

Design Synopsis of Minute Emotions

Solidity and Emptiness

It is intended as a manifestation of untouchable empty space, generating a familiar yet strange image. We explore the concept of empty and solid space by first chiseling out a variety of shapes on a woodblock, thus creating negative space. Then fill the space, allowing the negative space in the wood to re-emerge as a solid.

Afterall, we choose a slow, time-consuming approach to our artwork by making metal lattice as weaving of silk threads, to construct fragile yet powerful strength. Moreover, it deconstructs the boundary between inside and outside- the way of poetic and introvert expression. It allows the light to penetrate and interact with the artworks, thereafter, fascinating shadows would be created.

Void and Being

Minute Emotions implies a large empty space, which carries the spirituality, transformation and multi- interpretations of endless time and infinite space, being and nothingness.

Still and Moving

The seemingly conflicting artwork is allowed to clash and generate unlimited new feasibilities. By creating a still and silent atmosphere of physical poetry to reveal our speedy world, we try to ask the audience to sense the Minute Emotions in daily life.

Information provided by Sun Hung Kai Properties Charitable Fund Limited.