Groundwork’s Play House – “A House is…” Exhibition

A House is Playful – Groundwork’s Play House

For 7,000 HKD (903 USD) per month, the accommodations that one may afford in Hong Kong are very small. Nowadays, for these flats to appear larger on-line, real estate agencies would take their on-site photos with extra wide-angled camera lens (a.k.a “fish -eye lens”).

“Groundwork’s Play House” was a simple comparison of accommodation sizes that one may be able to afford for 7,000 HKD per month at different cities across the world. It was amusing to realized that for 7,000 HKD per month, one may only be able to afford a flat that is the size of a standard on-suite bathroom in North America, but there is nothing amusing about this sad phenomenon, when we later realized that these poor living conditions are gradually accepted by the public and absorbed into Hong Kong’s social fabric.

Hopefully, our small intervention may demonstrate to Hong Kong’s public an inconvenient reality that we must address solemnly.

 

「房子是遊戲」《Groundwork 嬉屋》

你知道每月七千港元可以租住甚麼單位嗎？

在香港，每個月七千元只能支付小單位租金。為了令單位視覺上看起來更大，現今不少房地產中介均使用廣角相機鏡頭（俗稱魚眼鏡頭）來拍攝現場照片。

《Groundwork 嬉屋》（”唏噓的屋”）以每人每月七千港元作為住宿費用，於各國城市可負擔的住宿面積作比較。在香港，每月七千也許只能夠租住一個與北美標準套間浴室同樣大小的單位。然而，公眾逐漸麻木接受這些擠迫、惡劣的居住環境，並使其慢慢演變成香港的城市面貌。這是一個可悲的現象。
我們希望藉此作品，向公眾展示一個必須獲得關注和解決的社會現況。

 

PROJECT SUMMARY \\\

CURATOR \ Chang Hoi Wood & Gary Yeung

EXHIBITION DATE \  4 December 2020 – 3 January 2021

ADDRESS \ Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre, 30 Pak Tin Street, Shek Kip Mei, Kowloon

ARCHITECT \  Hebe Lee, CY Lau, Manfred Yuen

PHOTOS \  Janet Wong

CONTRACTOR \ Dicky Decoration and Engineering Company Limited

 

Media coverage:

China Daily (08-01-2021)

Headline Daily (25-01-2021)