Trace of Life – 01 / 《生活痕跡01 》
Monica Tai / 戴安攸
Mixed Media Installation / 混合媒材裝置
Dominion Garden to Sun Street / 東美花園至日街
Exhausted by climbing up the stairs, most people rest at intervals and then carry on to finish their journey. This has a resonance with the practice of calligraphy. In this piece, Tai pastes patterned Chinese calligraphy-practice paper onto a fight of stairs. This fragile red carpet speaks both to the threatened condition of built heritage in Hong Kong and to ideas of determination and endurance.
灣仔爬樓梯累了，人會在梯間平台休息片刻,然後繼續旅程。 四十八級 這跟練習書法共鳴。裝置作品《生活痕跡 》裏，藝術家在樓梯上放置書法用的花紋宣紙。這張脆弱的紅地氈既訴說香港古蹟建築的瀕危狀況，亦流露決心和堅毅。