Yuenjie Maru 丸仔 Fragments of Silence 沈默碎片

A set of three drawings on paper

2020@ Yuenjie Maru

For this exhibition, I selected three pieces that I recently painted in Sham Shui Po: two of them are elders from the neighborhood who are reading newspapers in the temporary study room on the top floor of the Pei Ho Street Urban Affairs Building. Because of the epidemic, the tables are separated by plastic dividers. The third painting is of the minibus station he saw from the window of a restaurant on Guilin Street. Outside the window are two female workers waiting to receive the delivery of goods. The three paintings are displayed in an acrylic sheet with hidden and unknown stories. In this way, painting is a way of observation, and viewing painting is also a way of observation.

yuenjie MARU (YUEN Kin-leung) is an inclusive dance facilitator, a dancer in improvisation and contact improvisation, a live performance artist, and a dancing sketcher. He explores different art media, such as drawing, writing, theatre, dance, happenings, performance art, and installation art.

今次參展選了三幅人近期在深水埗畫的畫：兩幅是在北河街巿政大廈頂層的臨時自修室裡看報的街坊大爺們，疫情關係桌子都隔着膠板；一幅是我在桂林街一食店隔着櫥窗看到的小巴站，櫥窗外坐着兩個等收貨的女工。三張畫連同隱藏而未可知的故事夾在亞加力膠板中被展示。如此，繪畫是一種觀察方式，看畫也是一種觀察方式。

丸仔是資深共融藝術工作坊導師、即興舞者、行為藝術家及現埸畫師，亦從事編舞、劇場、繪畫、文字和裝置藝術創作。