“I didn’t leave Hong Kong,” laments Kacey Wong, an artist now in Taiwan. “Hong Kong left me.” The threat of censorship—and worse—has forced many artists to leave
does China’s censorship reach? The answer, according to a new exhibition at Saan1 Gallery in Manchester, is 24,901 miles , or the length of the equator. That is to say that the long arm of the Chinese Community Party stretches around the world.
Many of the artworks in the show attest to the spirit of resistance in Hong Kong in the months before the party clamped down. “The Memos” by Chow Chun Fai, an artist who still works in Hong Kong, depicts a schoolboy and girl from behind so as to hide their identities. The sketch is composed of dozens of Post-it notes. These nod to the “Lennon Walls”: collaborative artworks that appeared across Hong Kong during the upheaval.
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