Artist Lens｜Luke Ching Chin Wai: Community as Canvas

Описание: Meet Luke Ching Chin Wai, an artist who has spent the last twenty years using his creative practice to bring attention to social issues in Hong Kong.

Ching has developed an artistic practice that addresses labour issues, grassroots movements, and urban development. He uses a research-led approach to immerse himself in local communities and better understand marginalised groups’ circumstances and concerns. Challenging definitions of art and an artist’s role, Ching’s interventions take durational forms, inhabiting jobs such as sanitation worker and security guard, questioning the boundaries that determine what one can and cannot do while raising lesser-known issues into the public consciousness. ‘I emphasise that I am not pretending to be a sanitation worker. It’s about exploring what a sanitation worker can do,’ says Ching.

‘Who are the people working for minimum wage?’ reflects the artist. ‘When I started, I saw it as a kind of research. Their job is a very interesting one. They have a particular perspective on the people of this city. What we discard, what we throw away, what we discover. They’re a step ahead of a lot of researchers.’ To Ching, this is the crux of his artistic practice and the artist’s role as he sees it; ‘We [artists] have a kind of ability, a kind of ability that many people do not have. It is the ability to unveil something that’s overlooked and make people see it.’

As a chronicler and advocate, Ching highlights pressing concerns, gives a voice to those who often go unheard, and invites us to re-imagine civic structures through community discourse and action.

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