Home 家 by Leung Mee-Ping, Art in MTR 車站藝術建築, To Kwa Wan MTR Station 土瓜灣站, Tuen Ma Line 屯馬綫, To Kwa Wan, Kowloon, Hong Kong
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Art in station architecture
Artwork Title:
Home
Artist Name:
Leung Mee-Ping (Hong Kong)
Artwork Location:
To Kwa Wan
Artist's Concept:
Tuen Ma Line has brought about significant changes to the To Kwa Wan neighbourhood. Old buildings are replaced by new high-rises. New tenants settle in and old neighbours move away. To those who call this place “home”, what are the implications of urban renewal?
The artwork “Home” is not only a work of visual art. It is a creative process that engaged the community from the conception of the project. A total of 102 To Kwa Wan residents generously shared personal items to illustrate their ideas of “home”. Each coming with a story, these seemingly ordinary objects are all loaded with fond memories and endearing sentiments.
Amidst changes in To Kwa Wan, the artwork “Home” encapsulates the visual imagery of individuals, families and a community in a conceptual framework. Like a time capsule, framed within floor plans of old tenement buildings, it preserves the residents’ homes. “Every object accompanies the growth of a person and a family,” says the artist. “They are material traces of time where individual memories come together as the communal visual culture of an era.”
Home 家 by Leung Mee-Ping, Art in MTR 車站藝術建築, To Kwa Wan MTR Station 土瓜灣站, Tuen Ma Line 屯馬綫, To Kwa Wan, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Excerpt from www.mtr.com.hk/en/customer/community/art_tkw_home.html:
Art in station architecture
Artwork Title:
Home
Artist Name:
Leung Mee-Ping (Hong Kong)
Artwork Location:
To Kwa Wan
Artist's Concept:
Tuen Ma Line has brought about significant changes to the To Kwa Wan neighbourhood. Old buildings are replaced by new high-rises. New tenants settle in and old neighbours move away. To those who call this place “home”, what are the implications of urban renewal?
The artwork “Home” is not only a work of visual art. It is a creative process that engaged the community from the conception of the project. A total of 102 To Kwa Wan residents generously shared personal items to illustrate their ideas of “home”. Each coming with a story, these seemingly ordinary objects are all loaded with fond memories and endearing sentiments.
Amidst changes in To Kwa Wan, the artwork “Home” encapsulates the visual imagery of individuals, families and a community in a conceptual framework. Like a time capsule, framed within floor plans of old tenement buildings, it preserves the residents’ homes. “Every object accompanies the growth of a person and a family,” says the artist. “They are material traces of time where individual memories come together as the communal visual culture of an era.”