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Always Gentian Blue Sky
Always Gentian Blue Sky

Always Gentian Blue Sky

Color
Silent
4:3
production year /
2003
duration /
01'41

Site-specific project in public space, La Terrasse, Sierre, Switzerland, 2003
It is commonly said that Sierre is the city of most sunshine in Switzerland but there is no guarantee. In Gentian Blue colour (named by the supplier), two large stickers representing the skylines photographed in the courtyard of a modern shopping arcade in Sierre are separately put on top of two transparent canopies above the staircases entering this courtyard. As an site-specific work in the public space, Always Gentian Blue Sky explores the relationship between reality and its photo representation, in a lively and humourous way.

about the artist /

LEUNG Chi Wo was born in Hong Kong. He graduated with an MFA from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1997 after studying photography at Istituto per lo Sviluppo Socio-Economico dello Spilimberghese (now Centro di Ricerca e Archiviazione della Fotografia) in Italy and an internship in the Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst (now Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst)  in Ghent, Belgium. He has exhibited internationally, and in 2000, he held a solo exhibition at the Queens Museum of Art, New York. Awards received include the Asian Cultural Council Fellowship (1997) and Urban Council Award of the Contemporary Hong Kong Art Biennial (1996). In 2001, his site-specific project was exhibited in the Hong Kong Pavilion in the Venice Biennale.

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