Synopsis

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Inspired by the artist’s memories of the neighborhood and the tragic death of Wanchai’s independent bookstore owner Law Chi-wah, who was found buried beneath 20 boxes of books in 2008, FALL GROUND is a site-specific installation that mourns the fall of a place and time that is gone.

 

靈感來自藝術家對灣仔的回憶，以及 2008 年灣仔獨立書店老板羅志華被發現埋在 20 箱書下的慘劇，<<落園>>是一個悼念那地方和萬劫不復的年代的裝置。

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Open your eyes and look above

The room awash in ghastly white from fluorescent lights on the ceiling

White lights piercing into the eyes

The pupils, however, did not contract with the flood of lights

Your spine felt a chill which crept through the floor

Saliva drooling slowly from the right corner of your lips to the earth

A mammoth of a book pressed on your chest

You could not help but astonished by the burdensome weight of words

Then your mind flies back to the second-floor bookstore in Wanchai

The sweet bird of youth and bygone memories

And that era of doom and downfall

 

打開雙眼向上望

你望到天花板上的光管為房間照出一片莫名的慘白

刺眼的白光射進眼睛

不過你的瞳孔並沒有因為強烈的光源而收縮

你的背脊感受到地板傳來一陣寒氣

口水不由自主的從你右邊的咀角慢慢流到地上

厚厚的書壓在胸膛

你不禁驚訝語言真實的沉重

然後你想起灣仔小街那二樓的書店

那一段不復往返的靑春和記憶

還有那一個萬劫不復的年代