Ivy MA

Ivy Ma received a MA degree in Feminist Theory and Practice from the Visual Art University of Leeds, UK in 2002. Her works were included in the Hong Kong Biennial (2005) and collected by the Hong Kong Heritage Museum. She was an Asian Cultural Council grantee (2007) and recently had a touring solo exhibition with the Artists in the “Neighbourhood Scheme V” (in 2011). She held two solo exhibitions at Gallery Exit (Hong Kong),“titled gazes” (2010) and “Numbers Standing Still” (2012). Recipient of Hong Kong Contemporary Art Awards, Young Artist Award (2012).


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Hakka Women in Landscape
150cm x 250cm (each)
Digital print on cloth

Hakka Women are characterized by their strong personalities of practicing heavy farmland duties. This work tries to transform the past moments of these hard working Hakka women into delicate patterns printed on long curtain, in order to give a contemporary perspective and fresh looking towards these precious memories that we might probably forget. In the work, it shows the drawings of Hakka women working in the farm, for instance, hay-cutting. The photos are the Shing Mun Village (1923-1924) and Shek Lei Pui Village (1923-1924).

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