Rivers of remembering, to the forgotten land 

Past event
Opening:Sep. 6, 2024 5:00 pm
Duration:Sep. 5, 2024 - Sep. 8, 2024
Artists:Melody Qingmei Li
Address:Jeruzalémská, Jeruzalémská 964/4, Prague 1, Prague, 110 00

6. 9. 2024, 17:00 Opening

8. 9. 2024, 11:00 – 12:00 Workshop with the artist, reservation here

In collaboration with HART from Hong Kong, Prague Art Week is delighted to announce an International Artist Exchange showcasing Melody Qingmei Li, who will be in residence during the entire Prague Art Week.

Melody Qingmei Li is an artist and writer based in Hong Kong. She constantly edits and translates threads of memories and the present, some of which grow into forms of writing while others are woven into various mediums including drawings, paintings, moving images, objects, and sculptures. She treats artistic practice as simple daily exercises to resist the spreading of amnesia and aphasia, and meanwhile to create possibilities for moments of resonance. She is interested in liminal spaces between the natural and the artificial, the body and the mind, and the individual and the system.

Looking for memories never lived from the land never stepped on, the time spent in the artist residency follows the Vltava River. 

Through bodily recollection of a foreign land filled with unlived histories and indirect experiences, an atmosphere will be constructed through an installation of weaving threads, braiding beads, and fragmented drawings, among which moving images from reflections in Hong Kong and the Vltava River in Prague conversing in gaps of the space. Materials, reflections, and bodily encounters are placed in exchange, brewing kinship with layered memories. 

“She wanted to see the Vltava.”

Your Spring is scattered over our Summer. Your hair joined with my hair. Her gaze tangled with your gaze. Unknown memories boil with unspoken words. I offer a river in search, rivers to be collected, and forgotten. 

“To know we stray like a river 

and our faces vanish like water.”

 

 

About HART:

As a subsidiary of Henderson Land Development Company Limited in Hong Kong, HART is committed to nurturing the growth of future generations through art and community engagements. Operated as a not-for-profit initiative dedicated to sustaining Hong Kong’s contemporary art ecology and facilitating cultural dialogues, the vision is built with the pillars of creativity, community, sustainability, incubation, and educational outreach. With a focus on nurturing emerging talent and fostering cross-pollination among creative sectors, HART motivates the communities through interdisciplinary exchanges, curated exhibitions, public programmes, and international artist residencies. HART Haus, established in 2018, is a HART Studio works with over 30 artists annually through providing artists with a platform to create, experiment, and exhibit their projects.

Partner of the residency is studio HART and Gabriel Loci.