{"id":11779,"date":"2025-11-15T20:15:31","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T12:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=11779"},"modified":"2025-11-15T20:15:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T12:15:31","slug":"a-sea-exhibition-in-hong-kong-explores-our-relationship-with-the-ocean-a-complex-entity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=11779","title":{"rendered":"A sea exhibition in Hong Kong explores our relationship with the ocean, a \u2018complex entity\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"


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A bamboo-and-paper sculpture dangles from the ceiling of a gallery. It looks oddly familiar but also like nothing you have ever seen. The claws, tail and body resemble a lobster, but the horned dragon\u2019s head, well, that is where things get a little fuzzy.<\/p>\n

This is not a deep-sea creature but the product of a deep dive into the imagination of Hong Kong artist Louis To Wun<\/span>.<\/div>\n

Titled Seafood<\/em>, the whimsical piece is part of \u201cAll-Sea: Eight Oceanic Artistic Practices from Southeast Asia and Hong Kong\u201d, an exhibition running until January 17 at Karin Weber Gallery in Central, Hong Kong, that pays homage to the interconnection between the sea and us.<\/p>\n

To made Seafood<\/em> using the same skills he draws on to repair traditional paper effigies used in the sea goddess worship ceremonies on Cheung Chau<\/span>, the outlying island where he lives. Like the part-dragon that often features in those Taoist rites, his lobster is also a chimera.<\/div>\n

\u201cHaving lived by the sea since childhood, I often think of a lobster with a dragon head,\u201d he says. The Mandarin word for lobster is, after all, longxia<\/em> or \u201cdragon shrimp\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Louis To Wun\u2019s Seafood, featured in an exhibition at the Karin Weber Gallery in Hong Kong. Photo: Karin Weber<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Curator Caroline Ha Thuc says \u201cAll-Sea\u201d invites viewers to reflect on their relationship with the ocean.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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