Final 'Ink Art Ensembles' Exhibition Explores Illusory Landscapes at Guancheng Art Museum

2026-06-01 15:20 Last Updated At：15:28

"Ink Art Ensembles" Exhibition Series in the Greater Bay Area - "Illusory Landscapes" staged in Dongguan

Jointly organised by the Art Promotion Office under the Leisure and Cultural Services Department (LCSD) and the Shenzhen Fringe Art Center, the fifth exhibition of the "Ink Art Ensembles" Exhibition Series in the Greater Bay Area (GBA) is now on display at the Guancheng Art Museum in Dongguan. This exhibition is also the final one of the series. With the theme of "Illusory Landscapes", the two female artists, Barbara Choi from Hong Kong and Wen Qiuwen from the GBA, approach their practices through "gongbi" painting and spatial installations respectively, responding to the regenerative pathways of traditional ink art within contemporary landscapes.

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"Ink Art Ensembles" Exhibition Series in the Greater Bay Area - "Illusory Landscapes" staged in Dongguan Source: HKSAR Government Press Releases

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"Ink Art Ensembles" Exhibition Series in the Greater Bay Area - "Illusory Landscapes" staged in Dongguan Source: HKSAR Government Press Releases

Choi merges everyday urban sites in Hong Kong, such as the Yau Ma Tei Wholesale Fruit Market, the Flower Market in Prince Edward and the "Pang Jai" fabric market in Sham Shui Po in a traditional blue-and-green landscapes schema. For the first time, she has employed AI to render details within her scenes, extending static paintings into a narrative of moving images. In the form of painting and animation, Choi's work "Day and Night of Wholesale Fruit Market" guides viewers through the bustling day and night activities of the fruit market. She also draws inspiration from the meditative process of resinification in agarwood. Recognising nature's inherent capacity for self-repair, she presents a new series of abstract ink albums: "A Suite of Withering and Renewal" and "The Visions of Withering and Renewal".

Wen uses a fusion of the Chinese Intangible Cultural Heritage of paper sculpture and traditional lantern-making techniques to stage a spectacle of fantastical creatures and landscapes. Through the interplay of light, shadow and mirrored surfaces, she creates a perceptual experience that vacillates between reality and illusion. Her installation artwork "Mirrored Wings" features a four-winged bird. As viewers move, the reflections of the bird's four wings multiply into layered traces of feathers, creating an expanding visual illusion between the physical form and its mirrored image. At the centre of the installation "Stellar Serpent", a golden mirrored "star" gathers and reflects light, drawing surrounding forms into a cyclical visual relationship between the serpent and the celestial body.

In the collaboration zone of the exhibition, the two artists present an "alternative duet" centred on illusion and perception. In Wen's "Suspended Mountain", portions of the mountain are constructed from layers of translucent gauze, inverted to hover in midair. This transforms the mountain from a massive, solid entity into a permeable, lightweight spatial structure. Choi complements this by projecting her animation "The Twilight of Sea Turtle Mountain" onto the mountain. The divine turtle emerges amidst the crags, appearing relaxed and carefree within the interplay of light and shadow, where the creature seems to inhabit a world of its own.

The exhibition is running until July 12 with free admission at the Guancheng Art Museum, located at 5 Gaodi St, Guancheng Subdistrict, Dongguan City. For details, please visit the website of the Art Promotion Office www.apo.hk/en/web/apo/there_ink_art_ensembles_illusory_landscapes.html, and follow the "apothere" page on Facebook www.facebook.com/apo.there, Instagram www.instagram.com/apo.there and Weibo weibo.com/apothere.

The exhibition is also one of the activities in the Chinese Culture Promotion Series. The LCSD has long been promoting Chinese history and culture through organising an array of programmes and activities to enable the public to learn more about the broad and profound Chinese culture. For more information, please visit ccpo.gov.hk/en.

Woman Sentenced to Four Weeks for Smuggling Duty-Not-Paid Cigarettes into Hong Kong

Incoming passenger convicted and jailed for possession of duty-not-paid cigarettes

An incoming passenger was sentenced to four weeks' imprisonment with a fine of $2,000 by the Fanling Magistrates' Courts today (June 1) for possessing duty-not-paid cigarettes and failing to declare them to Customs officers, in contravention of the Dutiable Commodities Ordinance (DCO).

Customs officers intercepted the incoming 59-year-old female passenger at the Heung Yuen Wai Boundary Control Point on May 29 and seized 981 sticks of duty-not-paid cigarettes from her. The estimated market value of the seized cigarettes was about $4,400, and the duty potential was about $3,200. The passenger was subsequently arrested.

Customs welcomes the sentence, noting that even a first-time offender may still be imprisoned. The custodial sentence has imposed a considerable deterrent effect and reflects the seriousness of the offences. Members of the public should not defy the law.

Customs reminds members of the public that under the DCO, cigarettes are dutiable goods to which the DCO applies. Any person who imports, deals with, possesses, sells or buys illicit cigarettes commits an offence. The maximum penalty upon conviction is a fine of $2 million and imprisonment for seven years.

Members of the public may report any suspected illicit cigarette activities to Customs' 24-hour hotline 182 8080 or its dedicated crime-reporting email account (crimereport@customs.gov.hk) or online form (eform.cefs.gov.hk/form/ced002).

Final 'Ink Art Ensembles' Exhibition Explores Illusory Landscapes at Guancheng Art Museum

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