See You at that Place 我在老地方等你

Digital Drawing 新媒體藝術 

30 x 20 cm x 10 pc 

2023

* 國立臺灣美術館112年全國美術展 【新媒體藝術類】銅牌獎

* National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts 【New Media Art】Bronze Medal 2023

When Pavel Maria Smejkal created "1989, Beijing," he removed Wang Weilin and the tanks on Changan Street from the original photo, keeping only the instructive lines, grey pavement, and shadows of the trees. Although the things in the original photo were removed, we could see more in the picture, even more than what was originally there.

See You at the Place displays the author's frozen memory of Hong Kong after leaving the city, exuding a nostalgia and pining that go beyond geography. These "old places" have been painted over by different factors, deliberately removing the bloody violence, graffiti, or even voices of resistance, of social movements, including Yuen Long West Station, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong University, stairway of Central Government Offices (the Lennon Wall), and Victoria Park. In the work, these places are very "clean" and empty, putting together a "beautiful new Hong Kong" to pay gratitude and bid farewell to the sceneries that are gone too soon.

Pavel Maria Smejkal在創作《1989, Beijing》時，將在長安街上的王維林及坦克車，從原有的照片中刪去，讓畫面只剩行車路上的指示線條、淺灰的道 路和樹影。畫面上原有的東⻄被刪走了，但我們卻會從中看到非常多東⻄， 甚至遠超於畫面本來有的事與物。 

《我在老地方等你》展示了作者離港後根據著回憶將香港定格，帶出超越地緣的思念及不捨，這些「老地方」已被不同因素粉飾，刻意抹走過去社會運動的血腥暴力、塗鴉、甚至反對的聲音，包括元朗⻄鐵站、中文大學、香港大學、政府總部對出樓梯(香港連儂牆)、維多利亞公園等。畫中這些地方都非常「乾淨」、空盪盪的，拼湊出「美麗新香港」向來不及道別的風景致謝及道別。