[香港] 夢 • 徘徊 (侯驍彝個人展覽)

Within the 15 years, urban china is amazingly developing on its scale, speed, density and gauge. Shen Zhen, a city near Hong Kong separated by a river, has been described as a city rising in a night. Accompanying to the wave of Beijing Olympic game in 2008, a chain of architectural project bidding and collected designs open up internationally. Change has not only accomplished the gratification from the effort behind, but also drops the height between the adjustment of physical body and environmental surround. When human senses fail to chase the speed of environmental change, a distant is occurred. Distant is from the height drop. It is a lingering condition between the present and the past. Perhaps hesitancy makes things confusing and vague... but if you seek for it, a story will be found.

Hou XiaoYi, born in Beijing in 1970, started his“Dream-Lingering Childhood”series of creation in 2006. Born in the 1970s, Hou has witnessed the innovation of urban China, “Forward stumble is losing and gain. We catch the worldwide attention, but we lose our silence”.                                - Hou XiaoYi

In“Dream-Lingering Childhood", Hou intend to arouse our nostalgia of traditional way of life. We need modern civilization and prosperity of speed, but at the same time, we are eager for the traditional way of simplicity. “Dream-Lingering Childhood " is the bridge erecting between tradition and modernity. Hou hopes that it can occasionally help people be silent from the concrete jungle, recollect the sincerity between human and turn back to the tranquility of nature as well.

中國城市在15年的時間以驚人的規模、速度、密度與尺度發展，與香港只有一河之隔深圳就被形容為一夜崛起的城市。隨伴奧運的熱火，大型的國際招標、作品徵集競賽似的鋪陳而上，變遷成就了艱辛後的喜悅也造成了身體與環境調適上的落差。當周遭的環境以秒殺的音速在改變，而人的感官無法追趕環境轉變的速度時就構成必然距離，距離就成了落差，落差是現在與過去的徘徊狀態，徘徊或許是模糊、是迷漫，而尋找就有了故事。

侯驍彝1970年生於北京，2006年開始《夢迴童年》系列的創作。生於1970年代的侯驍彝見證了整個城市的革新進程，「有所得，有所失的蹣跚前行。我們得到的，舉世矚目；我們失去的，默默無聲」                                                                 -侯驍彝

《夢迴童年》侯驍彝意在喚起我們對傳統生活方式的回歸。我們需要現代文明帶來的快捷與繁華，同樣也渴望傳統方式帶給我們的輕鬆與平和。《夢迴童年》是作者在傳統與現代間架設的一道橋樑，幫我們從冰冷的建築森林中偶爾走出，重拾人與人之間的輕鬆與真實，重歸於大自然的平靜與安詳。