Echo Chorus was created in response to, and exhibited at, Asia Society Hong Kong, located in the former Explosives Magazine of the old Victoria Barracks. The site, built and used by the Royal British Navy in the 19th century, endures as a symbol of colonial violence. Yet, because of its protected status, the area was left undeveloped and has since become an oasis of biodiversity near the city center.
Echo Chorus engages the heritage site by considering space not only physically but as a network of interwoven human and nonhuman narratives. By molding the boundary stones that once marked the site’s periphery and reconstituting them in ice, charcoal, salt, and copper, the work probes the physicality of borders while exposing their original utility. It contrasts geological deep time with the ephemeral flow of lived time, questioning the site’s legacy and reframing time as something not tied to human experience but to the materials and systems that endure it.
Echo Chorus: Dissolve, 2020
Cast ice
70 × 30 × 30 cm
Echo Chorus: Scalability
, 2020
Charcoal, resin
70 × 30 × 30 cm
Echo Chorus: Speculation
, 2020
Copper, plywood, vinyl
70 × 30 × 30 cm
Echo Chorus: Sustenance, 2020
Steel, salt lick blocks
70 × 30 × 30 cm
Chronicle Compression: Hunger & Resistance, 2020
Etched aluminum, wooden frame, fiberglass
130 × 240 × 5 cm
Chronicle Compression a site specific artwork made from the surfaces of historical architecture. By making rubbings of large-scale architecture into aluminum sheets, retracing the original texture, detail, and surface entropy, space and time are compressed into a singe deconstructed surface. The process of making the rubbings is painstakingly done by hand, and the gestures formed from the tactility of the process reveal themselves amongst the unique topology of the surface as a textural snapshot.