With the demise of British colonial rule, people of Hong Kong began to reflect upon the place they lived. Standing at the meeting point of Chinese and Western cultures, they are lost in their own culture and history. A sense of loss haunts their minds. Since the 90s, many Hong Kong artists, including myself, have been using identity crisis and culture recognition as a source of inspiration, tracing their cultural origin. Maybe they are looking for what they lost in the past and trying to re-establish a society and culture to which they once belonged. It was with the beginning of the so-called “origin tracing” in 1993 that I released a series of works titled Test of Rebirth, where I chose Chinese medicine as a medium.
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Lam Yuk-Lin is a Hong Kong-based artist.
Lam Yuk-Lin, Cultivating Civilization, 2001. Concrete, steel, tube, a cottage house in a walled village. Courtesy of the artist.
With the demise of British colonial rule, people of Hong Kong began to reflect upon the place they lived. Standing at the meeting point of Chinese and Western cultures, they are lost in their own culture and history. A sense of loss haunts their minds. Since the 90s, many Hong Kong artists, including myself, have been using identity crisis and culture recognition as a source of inspiration, tracing their cultural origin. Maybe they are looking for what they lost in the past and trying to re-establish a society and culture to which they once belonged. It was with the beginning of the so-called “origin tracing” in 1993 that I released a series of works titled Test of Rebirth, where I chose Chinese medicine as a medium.
