Silas Fong is a contemporary artist born in Hong Kong. Through noticing and documenting overlooked details in everyday life, the artist tries to retain his pace and time with the aim of understanding himself better. By transforming his trivialities into a psychological experience, this process heightens the audience of their own daily happenings and questions certain social values in life.
This video installation highlights stolen, quiet moments in our fast-paced urban lives. In the video, actors reenact seemingly trivial private happenings around Hong Kong, such as a cigarette break or a chat on the phone in a quiet alley, questioning who is in control of time in the midst of hectic city life.
Art Recycle Bin, an acrylic box with a slit placed at the end point of the art experience on the 1st floor lobby. Visitors are invited to insert thin pieces of paper such as floor maps or exhibition leaflets, which many visitors will have in hand over the Arts Month in March. Fong sees this act as a means for visitors to clear their mind after an exhilarating experience, and as a form of recuperation that injects new life to these sometimes overlooked materials.