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Date: 14/04/2022
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Leung Mee-ping: Material Meaning

Leung Mee-ping

Born 1961, Hong Kong, works Hong Kong.
Works by Leung Mee Ping include Installation.

“If you don’t give or take, what’s the point of life? If you give up something, the thing that you give up also shapes who you are.”

Leung Mee-ping


In the warehouse of Hong Kong artist Leung Mee-ping, you’ll find no shortage of discarded objects: boxes of sun-dried teabags and human hair, piles of stuffed animals, suitcases stuffed with sickness bags. Over the course of her career, Leung has collected thousands of these byproducts of human existence and repurposed them into artworks, finding meaning in the sheer scale of things that the world produces.

Leung takes M+ on a tour of her practice, from her warehouse space to community collection centres and landfills, reflecting along the way on the lifecycle of materials and the beauty that comes from sorting and understanding the things that we abandon.

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Credits

Produced by
M+

Director
Lo Chun Yip

Writer
Willis Ho

Cinematographer
Yip Man Hay, Lo Chun Yip

Sound Recordist
Chan Yu Hin

Editor
Law Sin Yan

Researcher
Eddie Cheung Wai Sum

M+ Video Production
Chris Sullivan, Jaye Yau, Angel Ng Wan Yi, Kenji Wong Wai Kin

M+ Curatorial
Tina Pang, Chloe Chow

M+ Transcript and Closed Captions
LW Lam, Amy Leung, Gloria Furness

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