Lost and Found 失而復得 by Jaffa Lam, Art in MTR 車站藝術建築, Hung Hom MTR Station 紅磡站, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong

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Art in station architecture

Lost and Found

 

Artwork Title:

Lost and Found

 

Artist Name:

Jaffa Lam (Hong Kong)

 

Artwork Location:

Hung Hom

 

Artist's Concept:

“Lost and Found” is a multiple-part work that weaves through an imaginative journey at Hung Hom Station.

 

At the platform, a series of ossified luggage, in a variety of styles commonly used in different eras, stand as a timeline at the historical terminal for cross-border transit. Moving on, passengers run into maze-like patterns flanking the escalators. The images are in fact the archetypal nylon canvas bags. What can possibly be found in these bags and cases? What have they lost?

 

Next to seating, lost properties, cast in recycled aluminium from scrap ships and vehicles, await to be found at the station: a crumpled handkerchief, an empty bottle, a tattered cap… look forward to a reunion with an armless watch and a lost shoe of a child.

 

“Let memory stay, and don’t get lost—here and now,” says the artist.

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