Solo Exhibition at Oi!, Hong Kong, 1 Sep 2023 – 7 Jan 2024
In my recent project “SAD Kitchen: Oi! Guide – A Comfort Food Journey,” I utilized 3D printed objects, 3D scanning, animation, wall vinyl, printed matters and installation art to transform the Oi! Warehouse into a multi-sensory “kitchen.” This interactive space invites visitors to explore personal emotions and communal bonds through a site-specific game. Hidden psychological test questions were integrated into the 3D objects and animated features, encouraging self-reflection. Visitors received a personalized “Comfort Food Guide,” pointing them to local dishes in the North Point community. My art aims to use food—and digital media—as vehicles for social and cultural construction, connecting people, places, and stories.
FUSE Artist Residency: Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening
Supported by Hong Kong Arts Development Council
at Videotage, Hong Kong
2 Feb – 11 Mar 2018
‘Through slow-moving videos, images, and objects that are oft missed, Fong creates an encounter with the everyday in a controlled environment to allow the visitor to be with the urban in a different way. Many of the images are personal to Fong, and he brings in three textual perspectives (including this one) to obscure this narrative of his memories, opening them up to be shared. Bringing in media art theory into more traditional image-making practices, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening employs a light touch in a grand gesture toward a place where we can choose to be still.’
– Excerpt from Hera Chan’s text, The Freedom To Be Still
At the entrance, visitor picks up one of the catalogues and misses out the two others which look seemingly identical. In fact, each catalogue contains a different text that guides the visitor to an alternative experience of the same exhibition.
參觀者在展覽入口拿起其中一本場刊，錯過了貌似完全相同的另外兩本。 實際上 ， 每本場刊內有不同的文本，引導觀眾在同一個展覽裏經歷不同的體驗。
Digital print on paper, A5, 32 pages, 3 in a set, 2018
紙上數碼打印, A5, 32 頁, 3本1組, 2018
Dye sublimation print on voile, 140 cm x 260 cm, 2 in a set, 2018
透明紗上熱昇華印刷, 140 米 x 260 厘米, 2件1組, 2018
Download PDF 2015 Durational Installation Table, grey plastic tray, watch, attendant in formal wear, wooden door, soundproof walls and ceiling, laminate flooring, wall skirting, aluminum window with sanded glass, air-conditioner, wall paint, steel wall hanger, curtain, light bulb, kinetic light system
300 cm x 220 cm x 250 cm, 10 minutes
In front of a door, there is a person sitting on a chair. When you get close, this person greets you and asks if you want to enter. However, you are only allowed to enter individually, without your mobile phone, camera, electronic devices and books, etc. After you enter, the door would be locked, and it would only be unlock after 10 minutes. You would sign an agreement to confirm your decision at your own risk. Inquiries about what is behind the door would not be answered. Every visitor is only allowed to enter the door once for the whole exhibition period.
There is overwhelming information all around that numbs our senses. We are constantly forced to fool our basic observation of our daily life surroundings. In urban city life like Hong Kong, it’s almost impossible to be alone. We are always occupied and distracted. With mobile communications, it gets even “better”. That actually hinders us to understand ourselves and our needs. It is believed by many and even proved that, indulge in boredom helps creativity. This work tries to offer a solitary meditative experience which is free from social pressure and provide guidance to inner exploration.
Exhibited in
《The 20th ifva Awards – Media Art Category Finalist Exhibition》
Pao Galleries Hong Kong Art Centre, Hong Kong, 2015
An attendant sits next to the entrance of Flat D to control the operation.
A grey tray is used for visitors to leave their belongings (mobile phone, camera, watch and etc.).
Visitors are obliged to read the agreement carefully before entering Flat D. A watch is used for the attendant to keep time.
The attendant locks the door after the visitor has entered Flat D.
Light from outside the window scatters on the wall and the floor. It changes slowly across the room.
Air conditioner creates an atmosphere with ambient mechanical sound, temperature and humidity.
2011 Web Page Approx. 10 mins depends on internet connection speed
Is there an order for memories? I wonder how they are arranged so that the scenes in our mind somehow appear randomly. Are they organised according to chronological order or according to the relevance of one’s state of mind? Cinema to me is an art of memories. Cinema works with how the images that one sees are associated with the lost and remembered images and imagined ones. It manipulates the perspective and the perception of time by the audience. In this work I try to create an experience of memories and imagination by letting moving images appear and disappear. Footage ranges from telecined super 8 film, web cam, photographs and digital video cameras at different qualities. It is displayed in a web browsing environment in multi-channels. With different internet connection speed, system of the computer and the dimension of monitor, the work can be viewed differently in the sequential arrangement and content narrated.
Exhibited in 《The Order of Things》a net video art exhibition Netfilmmakers, Copenhagen, Denmark Videotage, Hong Kong
2008 Video Installation/ Performance Exhibited in 《Move On Asia 2010 Single Channel Video Art Festival》(Touring Exhibition) Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong; Tate Modern, London Alternative Space LOOP, Seoul, Korea; 《Hong Kong Contemporary Art Biennial Award 2009》 Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong 《The 14th ifva (Interactive Media Category) Finalist Works Exhibition》 4/F, Pao Galleries, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong, 2009 《Anonymity – The Debut Solo Exhibition of Silas Fong》
Artist Commune, Cattle Depot Artists Village, Hong Kong, 2008
《New Trend 2008》Artist Commune, Cattle Depot Artists Village, Hong Kong, 2008 《Current》Graduation Exhibition, Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University, 2008
We are merchants
Everyday we purchase
Time for money Money for time
I sell the stolen times
For reasonable price
Silas Fong is the first merchant in Hong Kong, for giving customers outstanding value for money, the highest quality in fresh time.
The performer steals time from strangers through pressing the button of elevators. The stolen times are recorded as video and are being exhibited in a gallery. Visitors can purchase and take away these times, which are extracted into a CD with money from the performer. According to the duration, number of people involved, their approximate age, appearance and response, prices for stolen times are different. The video sequences once sold are replaced by “SOLD – XX SECONDS FOR $XXX”, and are being shown together with the unsold ones.
Exhibited in 《Anonymity – The Debut Solo Exhibition of Silas Fong》 Artist Commune, Cattle Depot Artists Village, Hong Kong, 2008
Because you are curious, because you feel excited Around you, there are people that you don’t even know, that you have never seen, that you are not familiar with, that you are curious of, that you have watched for some time.Surveil them, forget your sense of guilty, follow your curiosity, share what you know about them like everyone does.
