Artists

Hiu Tung Ching

Press release

Curated by: Tina Hudelmaier, M.A.

‘Inside / Outside’ shows Hiu Tung Ching's new site-specific work: replicas of doors, windows and wall panelling made from wood and untreated canvas. Installed on the walls of the exhibition space, they pose both the question of space on the part of the viewer and the question of ‘What lies beyond?’.

The implied spatial situation is deliberately not congruent. Both the inside and the outside of a room are depicted on two walls standing at an angle. This creates an imaginary space that is all too familiar from painting, whose materials Hiu Tung Ching consciously uses.

Hiu Tung Ching's works are both installations and sculptures. They open up a three-dimensional spatial perspective, although they are two-dimensional reliefs. Far removed from the classic trompe-l'œil, they fulfil a similar purpose: the space and its functionality are expanded through an artistic intervention clearly marked as an image, while at the same time its function is called into question.