The Magical Hoop - Yi Tai Project

Art Central Hong Kong 2022, HKCEC, Hong Kong

Featured as one of the six large scale projects at Yi Tai, a key highlight of “The Magical Hoop” creates an imaginary scene where the continuous waiting at the laundromat vibrates with Hong Kong emigrants’ sense of longing and fatigue in a foreign land. The installation is a magical porthole that connects the street-front laundromat in Hong Kong to a living room in Britain. Under the pressure of high housing prices and unsettling social transformation, both the laundromat and the emigrant’s home embody Hongkongers’ longing for glimmers of hope and one day returning home. Within the spatial installation, the artist also presents a series of surreal drawings in which a group of young girls travel across different time-spaces through mysterious circular portals, searching for the hope of a new beginning.