MFA Solo Graduation Exhibition
Mixed media
Dimension variable
Born and raised in a walled village on the outskirts of Hong Kong’s rapid urbanization, Tang Kwok-hin grew up surrounded not by picturesque landscapes, but by a deep, intimate connection to the rural and the natural. As he entered the city—moving from bicycle to public transport and confronting the relentless pressures of capitalist success—he became acutely aware of the growing distance between his rooted background and mainstream societal values. This tension, marked by both alienation and enduring affection for nature, forms the core of his MFA solo graduation exhibition.
In Natu-re-adymade, Tang appropriates everyday modern objects and readymades—water pipes, internet-sourced images, comic books, wine labels, and other familiar urban materials—to fabricate illusory natural scenes. Water pipes are transformed into makeshift fountains; comic fragments become “stubborn stones”; Google images are meticulously assembled and carved into imagined islands. These works do not merely imitate nature—they reclaim it from within the fabric of modernization, revealing hidden traces of the organic in the artificial and the mundane.
Blending personal memory, cultural dislocation, and quiet irony, the exhibition explores themes of imitation, fabrication, and redemption. Each piece embodies a twisted yet tender consciousness: a fabricated Eden born from the very forces that threaten to erase the artist’s origins. Through this process of playful appropriation and reconstruction, Tang Kwok-hin questions prescribed notions of progress while asserting the resilient human desire to reconnect with nature, home, and self.
Natu-re-adymade is both a personal meditation on one artist’s journey and a broader reflection on how individuals navigate, resist, and reimagine the overwhelming march of modernity.
自小活於繁華以外，看到的不是現代化的林林總總，身旁縱沒有最怡人的山川景色，也盡是一片鄉土情。幾近二十載歲月後獨個走進市區，喧嚷的都市每每引導人崇尚眾多特定的成功標準，才愈發意識到成長經歷早已植根了質疑主流價值的動機。
這展覽以若干當下世代人民時常觸及的現成物作物料，如互聯網搜尋所得的圖像、漫畫、水喉管等，製作一系列展現都市暗藏自然景色的作品。
