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May Fung 馮美華
She Said Why Me 為何是她
2016
She Said Why Me repeats the title of a moving-image work May Fung created in 1989. The earlier version depicts a young woman navigating Hong Kong blindfolded, interspersed with black-and-white footage of other women in public spaces. The 2016 work similarly suggests ambiguities and tensions that define the artist’s experience as a woman in the city.
The video focuses on the movements of two women, who are dressed casually in solid-colour shirts—one pale yellow, the other dark green—and loose-fitting pants. (Credits identify them as the artist and Mei-Kuen Fung.) They appear in a variety of settings in Hong Kong: standing on grass near a pond; in front of a busy intersection; at Tamar Park. Fung often positions one woman at the centre of the frame; she moves fluidly, as if dancing or swimming, but remains rooted to the ground. Both video and audio—speech and humming—are slowed. As in the earlier work, the women are out of place. No longer blindfolded, they are now stuck, their movements self-aware but still seemingly frustrated.
The video focuses on the movements of two women, who are dressed casually in solid-colour shirts—one pale yellow, the other dark green—and loose-fitting pants. (Credits identify them as the artist and Mei-Kuen Fung.) They appear in a variety of settings in Hong Kong: standing on grass near a pond; in front of a busy intersection; at Tamar Park. Fung often positions one woman at the centre of the frame; she moves fluidly, as if dancing or swimming, but remains rooted to the ground. Both video and audio—speech and humming—are slowed. As in the earlier work, the women are out of place. No longer blindfolded, they are now stuck, their movements self-aware but still seemingly frustrated.
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