SILENT PROTEST

“The Artist’s job is to be witness to his time in history” - Robert Rauschenburg

On 30 June 2020, the Chinese Communist Party introduced a National Security Law. And Hong Kong fell silent. According to many human rights lawyers, the law has led to instant and fundamental changes in a previously free society. This is what I’m aiming to capture in this collection.

In an ironic nod to the iconic propaganda posters of the Cultural Revolution, these graffiti-style monochrome portraits capture the young protestors in various well-known Hong Kong locations, their mouths gagged with zippers and masks. The words of Mao Tse Tung hang over the crowd – their meaning simultaneously enlightened and sinister, when juxtaposed with the contemporary dreams of a largely peaceful Hong Kong youth.