YOU ARE HERE: AN EXHIBITION

‘YOU ARE HERE’ is an exhibition organized by local design studio, WHITESPACE as part of DETOUR 2009, an outbound programme parallel to Business of Design Week (BODW). The exhibition will launch on Thursday 26th November, 2009 and run until December 9th 2009 at the Former Police Married Living Quarters on Hollywood Road.

The historical significance and the architectural qualities of the Former Married Police Headquarters inspired WHITESPACE to curate an exhibition centered around space — both physical and intangible, and to celebrate the diversity and creativity in Hong Kong’s thriving art and design community. Titled “YOU ARE HERE”, WHITESPACE invited 80 creatives to contribute artwork to a group show about charting journeys, visualizing stories, plotting out dreams and surveying landscapes. Whether real or imaginary, distorted or accurate, descriptive or abstract, these individual maps will be gathered and displayed as one large piece to form a collective plan of creative energies.

Each artist/creative is provided a blank 30cm (w) x 30cm (h) x 2.5cm (d) white canvas, with a coordinate, on which to execute their ideas. The final works will be displayed according to its coordinate to create a truly original and unique show. The artists involved in this show comes from all backgrounds and talents with Hong Kong as the unifying force, from graphic designers and full-time artists to people who just want to express their creativity.

Artists include graphic designers from WHITESPACE, graffiti artist and painter L1ES ONE, illustrator Emily Elridge, designer and artist Kate Barnett, GRAPHICAIRLINES, designer and artist Yuki Holland, painter and sculptural artist, Roy Man and graphic designer and illustrator Sum-Sum Tse, amongst many more.

‘YOU ARE HERE’ explores where you are on a ‘map’. Where you are in time. Where you are at this moment. Where we are, as a group, in Hong Kong.

‘YOU ARE HERE’
An exhibition organized by WHITESPACE
As part of Business of Design Week / DETOUR 2009
Room 205 at the Former Police Married Living Quarters on Hollywood Road
From November 26 to December 9, 2009