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The Doors
The Doors
Color
Sound
4:3
Single-channel Video
production year /
2008
duration /
06'00

The Doors brings an old-fashioned Hong Kong to screen by capturing the daily habit of people in Nam Shan Estate with a surveillance camera. The rhythm of door opening and closing reveals not only the commonness of the old public housing living, but also demonstrates a unique sense of time and space.

以閉路電視形式拍攝香港的代表性建築物——公屋。在隱蔽的角度下窺探南山邨街坊的生活面貌。大門開關的節奏除展現出公屋居民的生活特質和共通性外,更帶來了一種獨有的時間與空間感。

about the artist /

Chilai Howard (b.1986) is a Hong Kong Mixed-Media art worker graduated at the School of Creative Media, Cityuhk (intermedia art) and Hkust (creative communication), who loves to explore speculative affairs and experience different artistic mediums focusing on moving images and mixed media installation.
Chilai has exhibited in various festivals and galleries internationally, “Both Sides Now”, Museum of Contempory Art, Taipei (2015), “Video Art in Asia 02-12”, ZKM | Media Museum Inkarlsruhe, Germany (2013), “Experimental Film and Video Art Festival” in Nanjing, China (2012), “Cologne International Videoart Festival” in National Centre for Contemporary Art, Saint Petersburg (2011) & Arad Art Museum, Romina (2011), “No Soul For Sales” in Tate Modern, London (2010), “Move On Asia” in Casa Asia, Barcelona (2009), his works have traveled to major cities, Barcelona, Berlin, Copenhagen, Hamburg, Hong Kong, London, Madrid, Saint Petersberg, São Paulo, Seoul, Taipei, Vienna etc. His passion also goes into two-dimensional and spatial exhibition design, he is currently working as a Creative Director at the November Seventh. (n7 communication.)

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