Come join us for the unveiling of ESKYIU’s new installation, The Industrial Forest at Spring on Thursday, February 28. Eric Schuldenfrei and Marisa Yiu (ESKYIU) will introduce the installation before sunset at 5:45pm.

Located in Wong Chuk Hang, Spring Workshop inhabits a quintessential post-industrial Hong Kong landscape which is now transforming rapidly into a community of creative inhabitants occupying the factory floors. Comprised of hundreds of incredibly thin metallic bamboo poles, The Industrial Forest acknowledges the origin of Wong Chuk Hang’s heritage by translating the yellow bamboo that used to grow there into a new landscape. Each filament is removable, with the potential to carve out a void from within the dense forest of landscape. Over a series of months the installation will be altered to accept significant crowds or be arranged to restrict access to the site. As an urban forest, it is configured to obscure the industrial buildings surrounding it to carefully frame the sky above. Located on the terrace of Spring Workshop, it aligns with the datum set by the traffic on the neighbouring elevated highway. Viewing the installation from the highway has a hypnotic effect, as the forest appears to simultaneously blend into and be displaced by the industrial landscape surrounding it.

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