2022/05/20

Ellen Pau’s “Shape of Light” Beams An Elemental Story of Self-Governance to Hong Kong’s Citizens

The Shape of Light, a moving image work by Ellen Pau created especially for the media façade of newly-opened M+ museum, debuts in Hong Kong’s West Kowloon Cultural District. Co-commissioned with Art Basel, the short film deploys the Buddhist Heart Sutra’s rumination on form and emptiness in a CGI narrative about elemental transformation. With the film, Pau offers “a gesture of guidance and hope” for her native city’s citizens, presumably alluding to their steadily eroding self-governance.

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