Amidst the heat of the social movement in 2019 in Hong Kong, an architect/ artist/ curator turned a project pre-opening Christmas marketing campaign with recycling used light bulbs into an inspiring art show.
As an architect, a vacant restaurant space in a shopping mall was improvised into a pop-up “art gallery“.
As a curator, she related the project theme, wood fossil with the used light bulbs and took the chance to revisit the meaning of life and human relationship in an attempt to bring positive energy to Hong Kong communities.
Apart from the light bulbs collected from the public with an incentive of HK$10 donation to an NPO for every used light bulb returned, she further collected other wastes from the developer’s concurrent hotel renovation projects.
As an artist, she improvised nine pieces of artowrk with these wastes and further invited 9 other designers and artists to create a responding piece or to her works or co-create with her.
Year
2022/23
Prize
HKIA Special Award - Architectural Installation, Curation & Exhibition Design
Architect(s)
arQstudio Ltd / Chan Lai Kiu
