Phoebe Ching Ying MAN’s video Home sweet Home is related to the issue of Hong Kong’s housing problem. In Hong Kong, most of the images in the real estate TV commercials are fake. They do not show the real apartments. Beautiful women, palaces, cruises and huge gardens are the usual images. The scale of the products (buildings) is often enlarged to show they are unique and powerful. These promotional videos help to construct the developer’s hegemony. The developer’s hegemony controls multiple aspects of people’s lives in Hong Kong. Many Hong Kong people spend their whole lives to work for their houses and remain trapped in the housing problem. Phoebe mixed some real estate promotional videos, photos reflecting the real living environment in Hong Kong as well as *scintillating grid illusion in the work to highlight the illusion created by these TV commercials. The images are like cages at the same time. Many people walk into these traps voluntarily. The video reflects the reality and also questions if there are other choices in life.

<家宅平安> 是文晶瑩一個探討有關香港房屋問題的錄像。香港的樓盤廣告，沒有實景，通常只有美女、洋酒、郵輪，顯示高尚生活和象徵掌握權力的意象，所售的建築物都被刻­意放大，營造一種唯我獨尊的駕勢。這類虛假廣告幫地產商建構地產霸權，地產霸權控製香港人生活的多個環節，不少香港人一世都在為房子打工，困在居住問題的樊籠內。 〈家宅平安〉把香港多個樓盤廣告、反映現實居住環境的照片與*閃爍方格幻覺 (Scintillating Grid Illusion)穿插在一起，突顯廣告建構的幻象，同時是一個樊籠，讓許多人自投羅網。其實生活是否可以有別的選擇？

*閃爍方格幻覺是一種經典的幻覺，當眼睛注視圖像時，方格連接處會有圓點一閃一閃。但其實這些圓點並不存在。

Dr. Phoebe Ching Ying Man is a conceptual artist, media sculptor and independent curator. Her most recent edible sculptures and performance Birthday Cakes (2014-15) were included in a show organized by the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London and were also invited to show at the Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle. Her installation Erosion of Home (2015) has been invited to show in an exhibition curated by the Hong Kong Museum of Art and will be exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei. Her works have been shown at over a hundred exhibitions and festivals internationally, including the Venice Biennale, Shanghai Biennale, Gwangju Biennale, European Media Art Festival, Videobrasil International Electronic Art Festival, Impakt Festival, International Video & Multimedia Art Festival: Videoformes, etc. She has received awards from the Hong Kong Independent Short Film & Video Awards, Asian Cultural Council, Hong Kong Museum of Art and Philippe Charriol Foundation. Marie Claire magazine has selected her as one of the ten “Smart Women of the 21st Century”.
Man’s works are mostly self-exploration, challenging ideologies and institutions. The sanitary napkin flowers series installations and video work Rati have received popular recognition. She was the co-founder and board member of Para/Site Art Space and is the director of Asian Experimental Video Festival in Hong Kong.