Artwork
《彳-亍之映》 Pa-ra-graph
Polaroid, window glass, boat wood
52-58 x 26 x 2 cm （set of 4）
#para #wandering #found_and_lost
Artist
Bobo Leung Ngo Shuen
Bobo graduated from the Academy of Visual Arts at Hong Kong Baptist University, with a practice spanning mixed media, ceramics, photography, and video, rooted in meticulous observations of everyday life. Through this perspective, Bobo’s work navigates between past and future, exploring existence, memory, and the intangible connections that sustain each other and the natural world.
Artist's Statement
When I tried to understand Tainan more deeply, I became increasingly lost in vague information and diverse narratives.
This process led me to reflect on maps—here, space is not just a representation of physical distance, but a mapping of emotions and cognition.
In the work, Tainan becomes the object of my emotional projection.
Taking the superimposition of two cities as a starting point, I displace the busiest subway route onto unfamiliar streets, constructing a daily trajectory that is both familiar and misplaced, exploring how the flow of my everyday life reveals alienation and connection within the projective space of emotion and imagination.
Creation Concept
Becoming aware of alienation stems from the disparity in geographical bodily experience. I use the evident differences in the “geographical textures” of the two places as an entry point to launch an action of reconstructing impressions.
I merge the maps of Tainan and Hong Kong at the same scale, using Hong Kong’s busiest subway route as a blueprint—a set of urban walking rhythms belonging to us—applied onto the Tainan map. Along this misplaced trajectory, I respectively capture Tainan street views from Google Maps, and on the corresponding paths in Hong Kong, I capture similar landscapes, then filter out their intersecting similarities, attempting to expand the imagination of Tainan impressions between clarity and blur.
