Launch of Lydia Wong's new exhibition with a crustacean theme...
6pm onwards, talks at 7pm
Join the Crab Museum for the opening night of Lydia Wong's new exhibition - Salty,Wet-at LIMBO...
Hong Kong artist Lydia’s work centres on crabs, salt, and bamboo scaffolding as a way of exploring the changing nature of identity in Hong Kong. Salt-encrusted crabs emerge from collapsed scaffold forms, referencing the bamboo scaffolding that has long defined Hong Kong’s skyline.
Crabs’ transformative shell moulting is used in Lydia’s work to treat them as living archives. Drawing on Lo Ting, the mythological ancestor of Hong Kong who lived between land and sea, these salt-encrusted crabs bring together ancestral myth and preservation of identity.
Alongside Lydia’s work will be a selection of short crab-centric talks from Crab Museum residents and friends, examining political and philosophical angles to crabs and their representation in iconography.
Lydia Wong is a Hong Kong-born artist based in London. Working across sculpture, video, installation, and performance, she explores how identity and a sense of place are shaped and preserved, particularly in the face of political erasure.
Drawing on Taoist geomancy and Feng Shui, she has flown crab-shaped kites on drones through open skies - embodied archives sent to the other world - and set a paper effigy of a giant blue flower crab alight as a fiery offering of memory to the afterlife.
These acts of resistance and transformation speak to her concerns around the erosion of civil liberties, particularly the censorship of language, memory, and history.
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Crab Lates: Lydia Wong - Salty, Wet at LIMBO 09/05/26
LIMBO Gallery, 2 Bilton Square, High Street, Margate
CT9 1EE
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