In the Name of Art ─ Hong Kong Contemporary Art Exhibition
15/8/2026 - 11/10/2025 Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei
A participating programme of ‘Hong Kong Week 2015' in Taipei
Presented by Hong Kong-Taiwan Cultural Co-operation Committee
In association with Hong Kong Economic, Trade and Cultural Office (Taiwan)
Supported by Hong Kong Tourism Board and Hong Kong Trade Development Council
Jointly organised by Hong Kong Museum of Art and Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei
Featuring site-specific installation works by anothermountainman (Stanley Wong), Luke Ching, Jaffa Lam, Phoebe Man, Kingsley Ng, Stephanie Cheung, Tang Kwok-hin and Justin Wong, this exhibition explores in the name of art the faces of Hong Kong art and brings issues into dialogue with the Taiwanese audience.
林嵐合作社 Jaffa Lam Collective
〈在“一樣的月光”下“明日話今天”〉Singing Under the Moon for Today and Tomorrow
裝置:傘布、陶瓷、幻燈片、聲音 Installation:Umbrella Fabrics, Ceramics, Slides, Sound
尺寸因場地而異 Dimensions Variable
2015
* This work is fabricated by Jaffa LAM Collective:
Tailors: Hong Kong Women Workers’ Association: LAU Chui Ha, LEUNG Wai Sum;
Special Thanks to WU Mei Lin
Sound Engineer: Jacklam HO Tsz Yeung,
Lighting Team: Zoe CHENG So Yi, Jan WONG Kin Wai, Justin Moy
Ceramics: Joe CHAN Kiu Hong,
Singing (Hong Kong): YWY, SHEN Yau, Tiffany TANG Tin Yan, TAM Chuk Lam,
Chris LEE Wai Chi, Jerry CHIM, LAU Ching Yee, CHAN Wing Sze
Singing (TaiWan): XU Jian Yu, SHIH Pei Chun, SHIH Hua Chun, LIN Chi Yu,
Special Thanks to LO Shih Tung, ADM Music Studio
The space installation Singing Under the Moon for Today and Tomorrow takes place in the biggest exhibition hall in MOCA, R201, and uses daily objects, such as numerous blue umbrella fabric, 9 sleeping bags, 27 sets of ceramic cups, headphones, lazy sofa, etc.. With the soothing light in the room, Lam creates a relaxing space for the audience where they can interact with her works.
“Can art change the world?” To answer this question, Lam followed the concepts and the operating mode of credit cooperative and invited female workers who used to work in the garment factory but had been laid off because of social-economic transformation. She asked them to weave the blue umbrella fabric gathered from Taiwan and Hong Kong into a big blue sky dome. In the middle of this soft sculpture hung in R201 is a big round moon which resembles to a loving eye watching over the world below. The umbrella fabric is very thin that light can go through it and it is also very soft that it will fly in the wind. The audience can sit on the lazy sofa under the sky dome and listen to the songs that the artist’s friends and relatives in Taiwan and Hong Kong recorded.
“Umbrella” becomes a symbol in the recent social movements in Hong Kong. Lam and the workers sewed up the umbrella fabric and made them into a piece of blue sky dome which represents the unbreakable relations between Taiwan and Hong Kong. There is a saying in Hong Kong when talking about typhoon, “Taiwan today, Hong Kong tomorrow.” When there’s a typhoon, people in Hong Kong will first watch the weather forecast of Taiwan to predict the path of typhoon. However, when talking about politics, one should say, “Hong Kong today, Taiwan tomorrow.” For years, people in Taiwan and Hong Kong live in a democratic and capital society which is quite different from that of China. Therefore, the political decisions of China towards Hong Kong and Taiwan become very important issues for the general public in Hong Kong and crucial problems for Taiwan.