156 Outside my windows

Teresa Leung
Outside my windows (2021)
Digital photo (framed)
39x30x2.2 cm

This is one of the more than 140 images I took from windows at my home during 2020-2021 when the pandemic hit.

Those windows became a major way of how I visually connected with the physical outside back then. 

The practice of looking out from the windows also gave rise to a heightened awareness of others’ existence and their movements as well subtle changes on the slope and the visible vicinity.  

Shown through the small-sized people, animals, and objects in those photos including this one, such awareness became not only a way of seeing but also an important starting point of reimagining my connection with the outside.

The photos, including this one, were shown as part of the Hong Kong International Photo Festival in 2021.

這是我在2020-2021年疫情期間，從家中窗戶拍攝的140多幅照片之其一。

那些窗戶成為當時我與外在環境視覺上連結的主要方式。

於窗前觀外的習慣，讓我對他人的存在和身體動作以及斜坡和周遭的細微變化之覺察漸見深刻。而這份覺察都透過照片中細小的人與物展現出來， 它不僅成為一種觀看事物的方式，也成為重新想像我與外界的連結之重要起點。

這系列照片（包括此幅）曾於2021年在香港國際攝影節中展出。

Artist Statement 

Teresa Leung responds to a variety of issues and situations in their practice. These include the possibilities of urban non-places, art-as-an-experience, International Art English, and "Soviet urban fabric" in post-soviet countries. The latter led them to join artist-in-residence programs in Armenia’s capital city Yerevan previously, and continue their exploration after. 

Their work received a Jury Special Mention in the 60Seconds Festival in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 2021. 

During the pandemic, the Hong Kong Arts Development Council commissioned Leung to design and manage a series of city-wide art workshops under the Council's Arts in the City Scheme in 2021-2022.

​They exhibited works previously in various cities across Asia, Europe, and the Americas. More details: www.teresart.net

藝術工友阿砂透過創作，回應不同議題與境況，如城市非場所、藝術作為一種體驗、“國際藝術英語”和後蘇國家中餘下的蘇共城市肌理的可能性。後者驅使阿砂參與亞美尼亞首都葉里溫的一些藝術家駐村項目，並於往後繼續探索。

阿砂的作品在2021年於丹麥哥本哈根舉辦的60 Seconds Festival中獲得評審團特別嘉許。

疫情期間，香港藝術發展局委託阿砂及其團隊籌劃2021-2022年香港藝術發展局「城中藝遊」計畫下的其中一系列藝術工作坊。

阿砂的作品曾在亞洲、歐洲和美洲的不同城市展出。 

更多關於阿砂的創作：www.teresart.net