Date: 3 March – 30 April 2023
Venue: THY LAB, 135, Yu Chau Street, Sham Shui Po, Hong Kong
Time: 14.00-18.00
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Curated by Alberto Gerosa Volontè
The exhibition proposes diptychs from Andrea Cavazzuti (Lao An)’s landscapes, shot in Italy and China between 1981-1984. Originally from Emilia Romagna, after being a student of photography master Luigi Ghirri, Cavazzuti moved to Beijing in 1981, and has been a city’s resident until today. This exhibition juxtaposes his landscape photographs from the first three years of the Italian photographer’s long experience in China, with his landscapes from Italy during the same period. Liminality as a method allows the viewer to enter into these metaphysical dimensions of familiarity, reflecting on humans and the intentions which make them connected. Cavazzuti’s images witness a long gone China, as well as a long gone Italy: these uncertain limbos are essential to understand the development these two Countries went through in the coming decades. This diptych aesthetic choice identifies a new common starting point, outlining a unity rather than a dialectic confrontation.
One, yāt in Cantonese, Yi in mandarin, is an expression of unity, a new foundational starting point rooted in mundane chances for community rather than division. An aware desire to place a point of view, like that of Andrea, in what connects us.
This exhibition will also include a selection of films by Cavazzuti that will screen bi weekly throughout the show.