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Monochrome photograph of ships docked at a harbour. They occupy both sides of the middle ground with their bows angled towards the centre. On our right, smoke shrouds the ships docked above a small boat carrying two seated figures and a standing figure with a long oar.

M+ Stories

Details
Year: 2017—18
Format: 10 min
Language: Multiple
Audience: Everyone
Location: Grand Stair
Monochrome photograph of ships docked at a harbour. They occupy both sides of the middle ground with their bows angled towards the centre. On our right, smoke shrouds the ships docked above a small boat carrying two seated figures and a standing figure with a long oar.

M+ Stories

In this series of screenings at the Grand Stair, we aim to deepen the audience's intellectual, emotional, and physical connections with objects in the M+ galleries. Artists and makers share stories and behind-the-scenes insights about their work.

Fan Ho: On the ‘Decisive Moment’ (2017)

While much of the Hong Kong of the 1950s and 1960s captured by Fan Ho no longer exists, it can still be experienced through his photographs of the time. Fan Ho’s style of photography exemplifies what the French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson dubbed the ‘decisive moment’. This method—of waiting for the perfect moment to click the camera shutter—is today considered a rather old-fashioned and even purist approach to photography.

A still image of Fan Ho. Sitting in the left half of the frame, Ho who has grey, white hair and wearing glasses, looks at a photograph which he is holding with his left hand.

Fan Ho: On the ‘Decisive Moment’. © M+, Hong Kong

Sepia-toned photograph depicting a facade of a building. Silhouettes of three figures stand at three separate balconies of the building. The man on the left is looking down, a woman in the center is resting against the railing and looking to her left, a second man on the right is running to the left. Under the balconies is a series of thin light rectangles. Above the balconies, there are small light squares dotting the facade.

Fan Ho: On the ‘Decisive Moment’. © M+, Hong Kong

Two hands touch the edges of a few monochrome photographs scattered across the flat table surface.

Fan Ho: On the ‘Decisive Moment’. © M+, Hong Kong

A still image of Fan Ho. Sitting in the left half of the frame, Ho who has grey, white hair and wearing glasses, looks at a photograph which he is holding with his left hand.

Fan Ho: On the ‘Decisive Moment’. © M+, Hong Kong

Sepia-toned photograph depicting a facade of a building. Silhouettes of three figures stand at three separate balconies of the building. The man on the left is looking down, a woman in the center is resting against the railing and looking to her left, a second man on the right is running to the left. Under the balconies is a series of thin light rectangles. Above the balconies, there are small light squares dotting the facade.

Fan Ho: On the ‘Decisive Moment’. © M+, Hong Kong

Two hands touch the edges of a few monochrome photographs scattered across the flat table surface.

Fan Ho: On the ‘Decisive Moment’. © M+, Hong Kong

A still image of Fan Ho. Sitting in the left half of the frame, Ho who has grey, white hair and wearing glasses, looks at a photograph which he is holding with his left hand.

Fan Ho: On the ‘Decisive Moment’. © M+, Hong Kong

Sepia-toned photograph depicting a facade of a building. Silhouettes of three figures stand at three separate balconies of the building. The man on the left is looking down, a woman in the center is resting against the railing and looking to her left, a second man on the right is running to the left. Under the balconies is a series of thin light rectangles. Above the balconies, there are small light squares dotting the facade.

Fan Ho: On the ‘Decisive Moment’. © M+, Hong Kong

Two hands touch the edges of a few monochrome photographs scattered across the flat table surface.

Fan Ho: On the ‘Decisive Moment’. © M+, Hong Kong

A still image of Fan Ho. Sitting in the left half of the frame, Ho who has grey, white hair and wearing glasses, looks at a photograph which he is holding with his left hand.

Fan Ho: On the ‘Decisive Moment’. © M+, Hong Kong

Sepia-toned photograph depicting a facade of a building. Silhouettes of three figures stand at three separate balconies of the building. The man on the left is looking down, a woman in the center is resting against the railing and looking to her left, a second man on the right is running to the left. Under the balconies is a series of thin light rectangles. Above the balconies, there are small light squares dotting the facade.

Fan Ho: On the ‘Decisive Moment’. © M+, Hong Kong

Two hands touch the edges of a few monochrome photographs scattered across the flat table surface.

Fan Ho: On the ‘Decisive Moment’. © M+, Hong Kong

Zhang Peili: Gloves and Messy Associations (2017)

Zhang Peili takes us through the concept behind his X? series in this screening at the Grand Stair. He had aimed to produce dozens of nearly identical paintings in the series by reducing technical and compositional changes to a minimum, to make the works seem like prints. In the end, he created around ten, but also wrote a manual with rules for reproducing the series. The mechanical approach and clinical subject challenge modernist ideas of art as self-expression.

A still image of Zhang Peili. He is wearing an ensemble of all black stands on the right side of the frame. He looks towards the left of the frame, in which a painting of a pair of white gloves hangs against a white wall.

Zhang Peili: Gloves and Messy Associations. © M+, Hong Kong

Oil painting on canvas depicting a pair of off-white, latex gloves presented horizontally, one above the other. The left hand glove faces palm up, while the right faces palm down.

Zhang Peili: Gloves and Messy Associations. © M+, Hong Kong

Oil painting on canvas depicting a pair of off-white, latex gloves presented horizontally, one above the other. The left hand glove faces palm up, while the right faces palm down.

Zhang Peili: Gloves and Messy Associations. © M+, Hong Kong

A still image of Zhang Peili. He is wearing an ensemble of all black stands on the right side of the frame. He looks towards the left of the frame, in which a painting of a pair of white gloves hangs against a white wall.

Zhang Peili: Gloves and Messy Associations. © M+, Hong Kong

Oil painting on canvas depicting a pair of off-white, latex gloves presented horizontally, one above the other. The left hand glove faces palm up, while the right faces palm down.

Zhang Peili: Gloves and Messy Associations. © M+, Hong Kong

Oil painting on canvas depicting a pair of off-white, latex gloves presented horizontally, one above the other. The left hand glove faces palm up, while the right faces palm down.

Zhang Peili: Gloves and Messy Associations. © M+, Hong Kong

A still image of Zhang Peili. He is wearing an ensemble of all black stands on the right side of the frame. He looks towards the left of the frame, in which a painting of a pair of white gloves hangs against a white wall.

Zhang Peili: Gloves and Messy Associations. © M+, Hong Kong

Oil painting on canvas depicting a pair of off-white, latex gloves presented horizontally, one above the other. The left hand glove faces palm up, while the right faces palm down.

Zhang Peili: Gloves and Messy Associations. © M+, Hong Kong

Oil painting on canvas depicting a pair of off-white, latex gloves presented horizontally, one above the other. The left hand glove faces palm up, while the right faces palm down.

Zhang Peili: Gloves and Messy Associations. © M+, Hong Kong

A still image of Zhang Peili. He is wearing an ensemble of all black stands on the right side of the frame. He looks towards the left of the frame, in which a painting of a pair of white gloves hangs against a white wall.

Zhang Peili: Gloves and Messy Associations. © M+, Hong Kong

Oil painting on canvas depicting a pair of off-white, latex gloves presented horizontally, one above the other. The left hand glove faces palm up, while the right faces palm down.

Zhang Peili: Gloves and Messy Associations. © M+, Hong Kong

Oil painting on canvas depicting a pair of off-white, latex gloves presented horizontally, one above the other. The left hand glove faces palm up, while the right faces palm down.

Zhang Peili: Gloves and Messy Associations. © M+, Hong Kong

Kiri Dalena: ‘Erased Slogans' (2018)

Kiri Dalena’s work Erased Slogans consists of a series of photographic prints of protesters holding placards with the slogans removed, based on archival newspaper images of protests in Manila in the 1970s.

The images speak to a formative moment of social action and turmoil in the Philippines during the authoritarian Marcos regime (1965–1986), just before Ferdinand Marcos’s declaration of martial law in 1972, and to Dalena’s own stance as a human rights activist. The artist’s digital removal of the slogans from the placards wipes away the messaging and leaves behind only a blank white surface. The void alludes to voices of dissent that have been silenced and to the myriad forms of protest that continue today, even if not always articulated in words.

A still image of Kiri Dalena. In the right side of the frame, Dalena who has long black hair and wearing a black top tilts her head to her left. She is in conversation with another woman on the left side of the frame.

Kiri Dalena: ‘Erased Slogans’. © M+, Hong Kong

Monochrome photograph in which protesters march on a street holding large posters in front of them. The words on the posters have all been digitally erased, leaving them completely blank.

Kiri Dalena: ‘Erased Slogans’. © M+, Hong Kong

Monochrome photograph of protesters in front of a statue in a city square holding up signs. The signs have been digitally altered so that they are completely blank.

Kiri Dalena: ‘Erased Slogans’. © M+, Hong Kong

A still image of Kiri Dalena. In the right side of the frame, Dalena who has long black hair and wearing a black top tilts her head to her left. She is in conversation with another woman on the left side of the frame.

Kiri Dalena: ‘Erased Slogans’. © M+, Hong Kong

Monochrome photograph in which protesters march on a street holding large posters in front of them. The words on the posters have all been digitally erased, leaving them completely blank.

Kiri Dalena: ‘Erased Slogans’. © M+, Hong Kong

Monochrome photograph of protesters in front of a statue in a city square holding up signs. The signs have been digitally altered so that they are completely blank.

Kiri Dalena: ‘Erased Slogans’. © M+, Hong Kong

A still image of Kiri Dalena. In the right side of the frame, Dalena who has long black hair and wearing a black top tilts her head to her left. She is in conversation with another woman on the left side of the frame.

Kiri Dalena: ‘Erased Slogans’. © M+, Hong Kong

Monochrome photograph in which protesters march on a street holding large posters in front of them. The words on the posters have all been digitally erased, leaving them completely blank.

Kiri Dalena: ‘Erased Slogans’. © M+, Hong Kong

Monochrome photograph of protesters in front of a statue in a city square holding up signs. The signs have been digitally altered so that they are completely blank.

Kiri Dalena: ‘Erased Slogans’. © M+, Hong Kong

A still image of Kiri Dalena. In the right side of the frame, Dalena who has long black hair and wearing a black top tilts her head to her left. She is in conversation with another woman on the left side of the frame.

Kiri Dalena: ‘Erased Slogans’. © M+, Hong Kong

Monochrome photograph in which protesters march on a street holding large posters in front of them. The words on the posters have all been digitally erased, leaving them completely blank.

Kiri Dalena: ‘Erased Slogans’. © M+, Hong Kong

Monochrome photograph of protesters in front of a statue in a city square holding up signs. The signs have been digitally altered so that they are completely blank.

Kiri Dalena: ‘Erased Slogans’. © M+, Hong Kong

M+ Opening Programmes

M+ celebrates its grand opening with a programme of events designed to welcome visitors to its newly opened space. Whether you are a seeker of new insights or an arts enthusiast, we invite you to the world of visual culture through our thematic tour, workshop, performances, and screenings.

M+ is more than just a museum—it is also a platform for visitors of different ages, backgrounds, and abilities to interact and exchange ideas with artists, makers, and the community. We welcome everyone—with or without knowledge in visual culture. All you need to be is curious!

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