South HO Siu Nam

South HO Siu Nam graduated from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2006. Ho’s artistic practice began with photography and has since evolved to the inclusion of performance, drawing and mixed media installations. His works encompass the wonders and helplessness of living and the spirituality of existence, as well as the socio-political awareness of Hong Kong. Ho’s work has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Hong Kong and overseas, including LOOK/17 Liverpool International Photography Festival (Victoria Gallery and Museum, Liverpool, UK, 2017); Breathing Space (Asia Society, Hong Kong, 2017); Works in Progress of the CHINA 8 project (Museum Folkwang, Germany, 2015); and Basically. Forever (Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Japan, 2014). In 2009, he was awarded the Hong Kong Contemporary Art Biennial Award. His work is collected by the Burger Collection, Hong Kong Heritage Museum (Hong Kong), Legislative Council of Hong Kong (Hong Kong), Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts (Japan) and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (USA). Publications by the artist include Every Daily (2013), good day good night (2015), and Space and Energy (commissioned by Tai Kwun, 2017). n 2013, Ho co-founded 100 ft. PARK, a non-commercial art space dedicated to providing an open platform for exhibiting and sharing art. In 2019, he initiated the artist residency project CHT.Art Project. South Ho currently lives and works in Hong Kong.

South Ho Artist’s Statement:
The video “If only it were possible to forget everything” was made in 2018 and retraces a journey I took almost every day four years earlier during the Umbrella Movement, going to buy beer from a Wanchai 7-Eleven and bringing it back to the protestors’ camping area at Tamar site. Both the video title and script reference a scene in director Wong Kar Wai’s film “Ashes of Time,” where a warrior is given a bottle of magic wine to make him forget his pain. But it doesn’t work.