Man Mei To 文美桃 PS Paid Studio Visits
2月1日星期一，本港時間晚上9時
Zoom ID：814 3637 8096
密碼：979694
直播間鏈接：https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81436378096...
廣東話
由Para Site策展人何思穎及項目經理/助理策展人鄭家醇主持
文美桃生於1990年。2017年獲皇家墨爾本理工大學及香港藝術學院藝術學士學位，主修繪畫。她的作品混合多種媒介，包括繪畫、攝影、錄像、聲音、裝置及混合媒介等。
文氏的創作以物料出發來講述事件/事情，並應用在不同媒介技術層面，常以展覽空間作為畫框場域、物料作顏色及訴說物，實行跨媒體實驗性空間與物料創作。作品多涉及「城市」及「身體」兩種不同探索命題。由身體的親密性游走到城市的景觀，探究城市化的生活，消逝的事件與物件。用物化，複製，重塑，以及量化的方式，令你重新注視到他的存在，他的脆弱與沉默之間的對話。在脆弱、零碎的物件中尋找他曾存在的重量。把身體與土地拉得更近，帶到最自然的狀態。
由2016年起舉辦了數個個人展覽《洗衣店》 （A walk with A3,香港）、《彼岸之地》（據點．句點，香港）及《沈積暗湧》（艺鵠藝術空間，香港），其他作品亦曾於國內外展出，如 《原始感覺藝術祭 – 2016》（大町市，日本），《類聚集》（非常廟藝文空間，台北）， 《像是動物園(2)》（香港醫學博物館，香港），《光州國際藝術博覽會 – 2018》（光州，韓國），《大風吹》（Rossi & Rossi，香港）及《字裡行間》（安全口畫廊，香港）等等。
從事藝術創作外，亦曾擔任不同策劃角色：2019-2020年共同策劃項目《還原頁》，於「油街實現」以食物為題的一系列社區藝術項目，讓公眾體驗藝術與生活結合的可能性。2016-2017 創辦《食母堂》，在香港兆基創意書院以廚師的角色介入學生日常生活。2014 – 2015 共同創辦「土丘」，於上水華山村開放生活實踐空間給城市人反思城鄕共生的存在性。2013、2014共同創辦「土地影像製作」和「田邊故事」，記錄香港新界東北土地發展、抗爭、藝術與村民的生活改變。如何從城市規劃中令城鄉共生，是作為城市人的大課題。
首席贊助：何善衡慈善基金會
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Mon 1 Feb, 9PM HKT
Zoom ID: 814 3637 8096
Passcode: 979694
Direct link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81436378096...
In Cantonese
Hosted by Celia Ho, Para Site Curator, and Cusson Cheng, Para Site Project Manager/Assistant Curator
Man Mei To (b.1990) obtained her Bachelor degrees in Arts from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University (RMIT) and Hong Kong Arts School in 2017, majoring in painting. Her artworks incorporate various media such as painting, photography, video, sound, installation, and mixed media.
Man’s artworks tell the stories on the basis of the materials, with the employment of different techniques and media. She often sees the exhibition space as her painting canvas, the materials as the colours, for executing cross-media and experimental works. Her artistic practice typically engages the “the body” and “the city”. She consciously carries her sensitivity of searching body intimacy to explore the landscape in the city, urbanized life, fading scenarios, and vanishing objects within the cityscape. Her works aim to raise awareness of “his” existence, and the dialogue between “his” fragility and “his” silence by objectifying, cloning, reconstructing, and quantifying found objects and reconstructing the trace of existence from the fragments of the objects. She hopes to find a closed relationship between the land and our body through her art practice, until reaching a natural state for both to exist.
Man has initiated her solo exhibitions from 2016, including “Laundry Shop” ( A walk with A3, Hong Kong, 2016 ), “The Distance of Space” (Floating Projects, Hong Kong ,2018 ), and “Sediment and Undercurrent” (ACO Art Space, Hong Kong). She also has rich experience of local and international exhibition showcases, including “Primitive Sense Art festival” (Omachi City, Nagano, Japan, 2016 ), “Ensemble” (VT Artsalon, Taipei, 2017 ),”Zoo as Metaphor (2)” (Hong Kong Museum of Medical Sciences, Hong Kong, 2018), “Big wind blows” (Rossi & Rossi, Hong Kong, 2020 ), “The Spaces Between the Words Are Almost Infinite” (Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong, 2020), etc.
In addition to artistic creation, she has also curated and founded different art-related communities and events. She recently co-curated “A Page A Wish” in 2019-2020, a series of community art projects on the theme of food at Oi!, which aims to let the public experience the possibility of integrating art and life. In 2016, Man established “The Mother Tuck Shop” in HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity and worked there as a food educator/chef. Back then, Man participated in kick-starting various projects in the northern part of Hong Kong. In 2013, she co-founded “Local Made Productions” and “Field Side Stories”, which document the development of land, struggles, art, and changes in the lives of villagers in Northeast New Territories. She also co-founded “To Yau” in 2015, a living practice space in Wah Shan Village, Sheung Shui, for urbanites to reflect on the existence of urban-rural coexistence.
