Osage- Central

Installation at Hollywood Road Pokice Quarter

This is one of the most impressive installations in the Former Central School Envisioning Days Exhibition. The yellow wall smeared with graffitis, swirling ceiling fan, half-darkened interior mimic housing estate lives. What is heart-touching are the Cantonese-slang characters motiffed on the walls, representing warring dialogues typically of parent-children relationship, as commonly heard in grassfoot Hong Kong families. Residents could identify easily the ambience of the installation and recall memories of childhood. The police quarter floor plan resembles many of the nostalgic public facilities that prevail in the sixties and seventies Hong Kong. This collective consciousness surfaced in recent years as Hong Kong citizen keep searching their once lost ethnic identity.
Standing in the quarter enclosure, amid dim light and installed neighbourhood ambient sound, I could feel the pulse of livelihood of those years, as voices of father and mothers, brothers and sisters swire around the small room, in between moving rays of lights radiating from the ceiling....