©Andreas Mûller-Pohle
Lumenvisum Gallery Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre 30 Pak Tin Street, Shek Kip Mei, Kowloon Hong Kong France
Hong Kong Waters, a photo/video/sound project by German media artist Andreas Müller-Pohle, brings two dimensions of Hong Kong together: its vertical urbanity and its horizontal alignment to the water. It is the first comprehensive portrait of Hong Kong seen from the perspective of the water, with never-before captured views of the many water sites this Asian mega-metropolis has to offer.
The exhibition comprises two media: photography, using a half/half underwater technique already applied in a previous work by the artist, The Danube River Project (2005/2006); and video, displayed in a variety of visual approaches to the water, from “Coasting”, where the recording camera is a plaything of the waves, to “Dark Waves”, an intriguing sight of Victoria Harbour at night. Hong Kong Waters was realized between January 2009 and December 2010. Lumenvisum is the second venue to show this work.
Vignette: © Andreas Mûller-Pohle