Visual Arts

In this exhibition, Eastman Cheng has re-constructed foreign signs and reassembled them into landscape furniture – soft sculptures made of various fabrics and soft materials, stitched and embroidered with textures from exotic lands. The three sets of landscape furniture, which appear to be a balcony, a dining table and a floor lamp, are actually scenic microcosms of China, Europe and Africa, expressing the artist’s feelings and her experience of different countries. Ivy Ma took snapshots of historical signs that were difficult to spot during recent trips and has created a novel landscape through magnifying, segmenting and assembling them. She applied geometric and linear patterns with gold leaf and cement to her images, blurring the lines between reality and imagination, and the distance between past and present. Four displayed works by Ivy fuse photography with painting, inviting viewers to critically review their assumed knowledge of exotic lands.