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01 The Braid Girl 辮子姑娘
It is said that the long-braided spirit was once a rural girl fleeing from mainland China to Hong Kong. Driven by the immigration policy, she tied her Hong Kong dream into her braid and boarded a train toward the city. Mistaking a passing station... More
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02 The Ghost Postman 鬼郵差
It is said that a ghostly postman unlocking gates and slipping blank letters into Wan Chai neighbourhood. Those who receive the letters are doomed to die within days. As death after accumulate, fear seeps into restless nights. The piece embodies... More
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03 The Haunted School 達德學校
It is said that the abandoned Tat Tak School is haunted by spirits of Indigenous New Territories inhabitants killed by British and Japanese troops. Buried within a nearby mass grave, they wander through the ruined classrooms searching for their... More
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04 The Convenience House 大澳方便院
It is said that an unsettling hospice lies hidden among the stilt houses in Tai O, once serving as a burial site for dying elders whose bodies were never reclaim by their families. Within this dread space, an elderly man rests while imagining... More
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05 The Mah-jong Demise 四人歸西
It is said that four gamblers died while playing mah-jong after forming four tiles with the character "West". The piece explores numerical and directional taboos linked to death in Chinese culture and depicts debauchery, in response to the... More
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06 The Parallel Station 太子站平行時空
It is said that a salaryman became trapped within the same station on his journey home, as if he had entered a parallel world. The piece explores anxieties surrounding the 1997 handover, portraying the city remains ensnared in historical... More
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07 The Submerging Turtle 石龜陸沉
It is said that a giant turtle deity lives within the mountains and descends gradually each year. Once it reaches the sea, the city will collapse into a violent red ocean. The piece portrays a disastrous landscape reflecting the erosion of Hong... More
Work by
Wing Lam Chan aka. Wing 泳
Illustration
“Inspired by Richard Hughes’s quote of Hong Kong as “a borrowed place on borrowed time,” "Borrowed Absurdity" reimagines Hong Kong urban legends through a series of eerie illustrations, revealing the...” [More]