Pearl and Beyond

The box contains brooches and other pieces of jewelry made of maritime matter. They are test pieces in a project led by Hong Kong artist and educator Ching Sze-Yin Cicy. Under the project title “Pearl and Beyond” she has conducted several activities and two exhibitions of works by students of the Academy of Visual Arts at Hong Kong Baptist University (see Video).

Au Yeung Chun (1991- ), for example, used mother or pearl in his “Things I Wanted to Say But Never Did” of 2019. At the heart of the “Pearl and Beyond” project stood the reuse of objects found at Hong Kong’s beaches that include shells, but also plastic garbage. Other jewelry artists who engage with plastic trash in Hong Kong include Zeyun Chen.