Lingnan student-curated show explores care through six themes
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Summary
Lingnan University will launch its annual student exhibition “Who Cares?” on August 10, with public viewing from August 11 to 17 and free admission throughout the run . Curated by 32 students in the university’s Master of Arts in Curating and Art History programme, the exhibition brings together six curatorial units and more than 40 works by over 30 artists from Hong Kong, mainland China and other places . The project uses six themes to examine care from multiple angles, including emotional strain, self-care, bereavement, memory and the warmth of everyday life . Adviser Lo Ka-yin said the exhibition is designed to help students rethink care as a foundational curatorial responsibility while connecting art to lived experience and social concerns .
Key Points
- The exhibition opens on August 10, then admits the public free of charge from August 11 to 17 at Lingnan University .
- Thirty-two DACI MACAH students formed six curatorial groups and selected over 40 multimedia works by more than 30 artists .
- The six themes are “Wrinkles of Mind,” “ME=me me≠ME . Who cares about me?”, “After Loss,” “The Echo of Memory,” “The Lingering Warmth of Everyday,” and “Gazing in Ink: Seeing People, Seeing Emotions” .
- Featured works include Yang Zhenzhong’s “I Will Die,” which records people of different ages speaking about fear of death since 2000 .
- Other highlighted pieces include Cheuk Sze-wing’s printer-based work on forced positivity, Dong Yongkang’s endless jumping metaphor, and Xiao Jing’s burned-text meditation on parting .
Why It Matters
The exhibition shows how emerging curators in Hong Kong are using art to address mental pressure, grief, memory and the emotional texture of daily life rather than treating care as an abstract concept . It also highlights a training model in which postgraduate students take on real curatorial responsibility, linking artistic interpretation with social reflection and public engagement .