Last week, despite the really shitty chinese rapper performing on a stage near the entrance, I went to the Hong Kong Museum of Art and checked out the
Hair Dialogue installation art exhibit. I was pulled between the awe and fascination of the medium, and feeling like I was going to throw up. Artists Gu Wenda and Leung Mee-ping created everything from tiny dutch clogs and a room draped in texts from all over the world, from human hair. In the room of words, which included english, kanji, chinese, hebrew, arabic, and a few others, it looked as if the hair was matted down and held together by a dried, mucus substance, like they just cut the hair from a hippie's head and molded it into shape. They really didn't need to install the "Don't Touch" signs on this exhibit, at least for me. Fascinating nonetheless, and all for $10HKD (a little over a buck).
Last week, despite the really shitty chinese rapper performing on a stage near the entrance, I went to the Hong Kong Museum of Art and checked out the Hair Dialogue installation art exhibit. I was pulled between the awe and fascination of the medium, and feeling like I was going to throw up. Artists Gu Wenda and Leung Mee-ping created everything from tiny dutch clogs and a room draped in texts from all over the world, from human hair. In the room of words, which included english, kanji, chinese, hebrew, arabic, and a few others, it looked as if the hair was matted down and held together by a dried, mucus substance, like they just cut the hair from a hippie's head and molded it into shape. They really didn't need to install the "Don't Touch" signs on this exhibit, at least for me. Fascinating nonetheless, and all for $10HKD (a little over a buck).
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