Artist's statement

“On-Site Zhagjiang” is a way of looking at Zhangjiang as a future urban model for high-tech innovation and production worldwide (looking out); “Zhangjiang On-Site” rather takes Zhangjiang as a Chinese urban area and observes the cultural situation faced by these areas of high-tech development (looking in). The tension between these two urban modalities is the text for my creative concept.

I sat up an installation in the empty space around the wall opposite the Zhangjiang Road, a space of urban construction and design, a temporary home of rural laborers—“enlarged DELETE key”. It aims to express a tension between this unchanging fixture of the computer keyboard and humanity’s constant desire for innovation. It leads to a consideration of the dialectical relationships between “disappearance and appearance; destruction and construction” in this urban present progressive tense.

Images and text courtesey of Leung Mee-ping

LEUNG MEE-PING

Leung Mee-ping's works examine daily life through perception of daily life itself.

Currently a lecturer at the Academy of Visual Art, Baptist University of Hong Kong.

Leung Mee-ping was born in Hong Kong, graduated from L'Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts a Paris, France in 1991 and gained her MFA from California Institute of Arts, USA in 2000. Researches focus on visual culture, city culture, media culture and globalization. Her art work genres include mixed media, video, multimedia installation and site-specific event-based project.

Selected Exhibition Records

2007 Reversing Horizons Shanghai MOCA, Shanghai, China
2007 Asian-Europe Mediation Zendai MOCA, Shanghai, China/ IF Museum, Pozan, Poland
2007 Arrivals and Departures Manchester Urbis Center, Manchester, England
2006 Room with View (solo)Centre de Reflexion sur I'image et ses Contexts, Sierre, Switzerland
2006 Facts & Figures De Appel Foundation Art Center, Amsterdam, Holland
2006 City in Progress / Live from Zhang Jiang, Zhang Jiang High Technology Park / Three on the Bund:Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, China
2006 Hair Dialogue-Installation Art Exhibition Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong
2006 Indiana International Video Art Festival Kokomo Art Gallery, Indiana University, Indiana, USA
2006 Temporary Identities, Digital and Video Art Festival Novosibirsk State Art Museum, Russia
2005 Second Guangzhou Triennial (as part of 1a Space Art Project) Guangzhou Art Museum, China
2004 In Search of Insomnious Sheep (solo) Tai Mei Tuk Sea Activity Centre / 1a Space, Hong Kong
2004 Neither East nor West East-West Centre and Gallery, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
2004 Past in Reverse: Contemporary Art of East Asia San Diego Museum of Art / Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art / Hood Museum at Dartmouth, San Diego, USA
2004 Technique of the Visible, Shanghai Biennale Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
2004 Asia Traffic 4a, Sydney, Australia / Singapore Museum of Arts, Singapore / Today Art Museum, Beijing / Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China / OCT Contemporary Art Terminal, Shengzhen / Hong Kong Visual Art Center, Hong Kong
2003 Hong Kong Contemporary--Water Tone: Leung Mee-ping 1992-2003 (solo) Kaoshsiung Fine Art Museum, Kaoshsiung, Taiwan
2003 Hong Kong Art Biennial Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong
2003 City net_Asia Seoul Museum of Art, Korea
2003 OCEM Project Para Site, Hong Kong / West Space, Melbourne, Australia
2003 Sharjah International Biennial Sharjah Museum of Art, Sharjah, U.A.E.
2002 Memorize the Future (solo) Hong Kong City Hall, Hong Kong
2002 Site & Sight Asian Civilization Museum, Singapore
2001 Over Here, There Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, USA
2000 Text & Subtext Earl Lu Gallery, Lasalle-Sia College of the Arts, Singapore / Ivan Dougherty Galley, University of Sydney & Art Space, Australia / Ostasiatiska Museet, Sweden / Stenersen Museum, Norway / Taipei Modern Art Museum, Taiwan / Xray Art Space, Beijing.

Selected Publication

Art review writing for journals, magazines and research papers, 1996-2007.

Awards & Achievements

2007 Civitella Ranieri Fellowship, Civitella Ranieri Foundation, Italy
2006 Global Arts Artist Fellowship, Global Arts Village Foundation, India
2004 Freeman Foundation Fellowship, Freeman Foundation, USA
2002 Starr Foundation Fellowship, Asia Cultural Council, USA
2001 Hong Kong Art Biennial Award, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong
1998 Fellowship for Artistic Development, Hong Kong Arts Development Council, Hong Kong
1994 Manulife Young Artists, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
1992 Exchange Student Arts Scholarship, L'Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts a Paris, France
1991 Prix Rocheron, France, L'Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts a Paris, France

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