Asia

Eason Tsang Ka Wai

New Landmark No. 1

2014

Tsang Eason Ka Wai, New Landmark No. 1, 2014.

New Landmark No.1 is part of the series New Landmark. In this series, Eason Tsang Kai Wa reversed the direction of his camera lens and captured images of skyscrapers from an upshot angle. Through this process of looking, the artist started to observe closely the conditions of these landmarks in different times of the day and things happening in them. These images turn our focus to different dimensions of buildings and objects, and challenges our daily habit of perceiving our surroundings. The dense and horizontal steel forests of Hong Kong are transformed into deserts, ocean waves and the sky. In embodying the pressing desire for escapade of the city dwellers, the images also reveal the hidden anxiety about excessive modernisation in the urban space. New Landmark No.1 features a public housing building named Yue Wan Estate in Hong Kong. The laundry pole and objects sticking out from the windows of the building, look like an art installation from an upshot.

In a practice that engages mainly with photography, video, and lightboxes, Eason Tsang Ka Wai takes inspiration from Hong Kong's urban density and everyday objects. His works, most commonly addressing humans' relationship to technology and urbanism, foreground a distinct perception that subverts common perspectives on daily existence in the city and the individual's powerlessness against imposed social mechanisms. Notions of vulnerability, anxiety, escapism, and coercion are nodal to Tsang Ka Wai's work, which he addresses and reflects on in relation to society's structural elements – urban planning and geographies, new media, architecture – and the complex, specific political and economic reality of Hong Kong. Tsang Ka Wai's work embraces a dark, futuristic, dystopian aesthetic that investigates individuals' conception and perception of time, space and self in the contemporary megalopolis.

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Eason Tsang Ka Wai New Landmark No. 1

Eason Tsang Ka Wai

New Landmark No. 1