227 The World

The World 
Size : 20inch x 24 inch, Silver Gelatin Paper
HK

Siu Pik Kam Olivia

Olivia has practiced photography for more than ten years.  During her early photography stage, the main theme is about landscape and short sketch.  She mainly use digital means at that time.  She always travelled overseas and to mainland China to take photos.  She likes to use different composition and lighting to do her work.  During the past few years, due to social activity and pandemic, she stayed in Hong Kong. She started to learn to use film as her photographic media.  Hong Kong people’s daily living and pandemic became her photographic topic. She also starts to learn cyanotype, pinhole, dry plate.  She likes to explore the meaning of photographs to people.  She also likes to explore different possibilities of photography through different media.

The image freezes the silent gambling of gender roles in monochrome. Two ladles—their rounded curves echoing nurturing instincts. Two neckties—their angular creases crystallizing social discipline—petrify under clinical light. Along the chiaroscuro divide, the clash of rigidity and softness builds a tensile field, where unspoken identity anxieties bleed rust-toned whispers from fissures in these artifacts.