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The exhibition "20 Girls" was a more ambitious follow-up to another portrait project of the artist called "Warrior Girl" and was based around the outline of The Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, the most progressive blueprint adopted worldwide on the advancement of women's rights.
“When I studied fine arts here in Hong Kong, I did ceramics for a year. It was one of my favourite subjects because it involved handling clay. Working with a natural material like clay, which is not dissimilar to soil and water, was almost therapeutic. We recently started a communal composting initiative in our village, which is pretty exciting – by turning our green waste into compost we are creating even more nutrient-rich soil to get our hands into.”
For the past decade, we’ve been exposed to issues of human rights violations around the world like never before. Thanks to technology, social media and the work of organisations such as Human Rights Watch and other NGOs, which constantly work to report, research and release data, we’ve been given more and more chances to take action as a global community.
Social Transformations – An Exhibition Celebrating 20 Years of Partnership between RMIT University and Hong Kong Art School
The exhibition proudly celebrates the 20 years of partnership between RMIT University and the Hong Kong Art School (HKAS), with a focus on the social transformations it brings.
著名戰地攝影師Robert Capa說過：「如果相片拍得不夠好，是因為你靠得不夠近。」要用鏡頭說故事，就要走進故事當中；正如在香港藝術學院修讀攝影的學生Katie Vajda，因為關注社會走進生活。她憑着藝術觸覺及勇於嘗試，學習攝影短短兩年，便以探討女傭社會地位的作品奪得2014香港人權藝術獎，成績有目共睹。而她更推出首個個人影展，繼續為女性、人權發聲，值得關注。
Moved by the plight of domestic helpers in the city, Australian Katie Vajda decided to do her bit to challenge a few things that have become 'acceptable'
