“During the 90s, there was a popular answer to the question of why Hong Kong artists liked to do installations. It was that we didn’t have any space, and if we did painting, we’d need a space to store the painting after the exhibition. So the easy way out was to do installations – you did the job and then you threw it away.” Ellen Pau
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Space: The final frontier for Hong Kong’s artists?
Hong Kong is one of the densest, most expensive cities in the world, but contemporary artists have developed innovative approaches to the cost of being creative among the skyscrapers.
http://artradarjournal.com/2013/08/16/space-the-final-frontier-for-hong-kongs-artists/