In 1993, I had a large solo exhibition at the Hong Kong Arts Centre. There was also a book published about the show. In the opening of the book I have a piece of text which was originally from one of the works I did for Gilbert Papers.
That piece of text, might be in a way part of my philosophy: I discussed with a friend the relationship between a river and its water. We came to talk about Marcel Duchamp, particularly about his viewpoint on ready-made objects. An object and its environment is equivalent to a swimming fish and a river, you cannot simply separate them. That's why I came to like Barbara Kruger afterwards. A graphic designer joined in. He asked me about the concept of using recycling images. I replied, to change a piece of rock into a photograph, or to change a rock photograph into a piece of rock is a matter of order. Then we discontinued to discuss anything about heaviness.
I think he must have seen R. Magritte. I supposed, when I mentioned René, he should have known René's pipe well even though I'd left Magritte's title. This way, we'd come back to the original point of river and its water. The above text is from "Four Stanzas of a Poem".
In 1993, I worked with a designer on a project for a paper company. She had to design a brochure for the client. I suggested, why not make a huge format brochure. That came to the idea of making a brochure that could be detached and became posters. You can imagine - the brochure is in the size of half of a poster. There were four artists involved in this project- each one made work on a particular theme- my subject was "recycle". My work was a straightforward photograph of four objects with my handwriting of the above text printed on top of the image in gold colour. The text was originally in Chinese. I wrote on a piece of small paper, in a "auto-writing" way, You can even see the correction marks among words.
Visually I still follow the style I started in the late 90s- that is black and white works. I had a book published in ’98 ‘Forty Poems’, please visit this link and you will be able to browse the whole book: leekasing-40poems.blogspot.com
My present work is the same as the works in the second part of the book. Early 2000 I was in a group show in Tokyo about Hong Kong Contemporary Arts. I have 6 pieces of new work, black & white, size around 36x48 inches.Lee ka-Sing
Blindspot Gallery 'A Permanent Instant'(pdf) also with Joseph FUNG.
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