"Return Transit", @HKBU AVA 2009-03-04

Exhibition
2 – 13 March, 2009

Students showcase their artworks which were exhibited at Yada-Gallery Nagoya, Japan in December 2008.
In October 2008, a group of twelve Japanese students and two professors from Nagoya Zokei University (NZU), Japan visited the Academy of Visual Arts (AVA) to show their art-pieces in the exhibition Transit NGO<->HKG at AVA Gallery. In return, a group of fourteen AVA Hong Kong students and a professor visited Nagoya in December 2008 and joined their Japanese counterparts in an answering exhibition at Yada-Gallery Nagoya. As some of the pieces shown in Japan were produced specifically for that show and haven’t been seen in Hong Kong before, AVA now proudly presents “Return Transit” exhibition at the AVA Gallery.

In opposite to common belief, fine art is not without function, as the aim of any artist is surely to communicate some messages to the audience, to other artists or to the general public. In some ideal moments, art can even generate communication beyond its content and results in a sort of (visual) language beyond the traditional spoken word. One such moment has been Transit NGO<->HKG.The Transit-series of Nagoya Zokei University has been in place for several years, partnering NZU-students with other students from various places in the world. While all of these previous exchanges were exciting experiences and have their own specific meanings and value, Transit NGO<->HKG was one of the series that managed best to establish such kind of art-language. The reason behind maybe because the AVA is the first Asian institution invited by NZU to be a partner in the exchange in 2008. It maybe also because the right people simply met their right counterparts, or Transit has matured and is ready for such kind of thing to happen, or maybe simply the art was right.

Unlike many other student exchange exhibitions, in which the works from the participating schools are merely exhibited together but not necessarily correspond, the art-pieces in Transit NGO<->HKG did entered a conversation, correlated and balanced each other. On a personal level, this was matched by the seemingly instant connection made between Japanese and Chinese students despite the expectable differences in language, culture and personal background.

On Show at:
AVA Gallery
Academy of Visual Arts
51 Kwun Tong Road, Kowloon


今天去看了香港浸會大學視覺藝術院內的一個小展覽，
不是甚麼大型製作，甚至不是要滿足課程內容的作品。

那是自由的、沒有框框的，愉快的作業；在學院內。