"Queer Series No.14: Love Poem II"
2019
L1 Gallery, Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre, Hong Kong
Grand Opening, "Sex/Gender Reinterpretation", "Hong Kong Queer Literary and Cultural Festival 2019"
Performance Art
Collaborated with Wiency Wong
Yim and Wong used kisses to the self and kisses to the others respectively to compose love poems to each other.
The work addresses the struggling situations of homosexuals in the Chinese society, such as unbearable family and social pressure that they would face after coming out. The pressure lead them to remain single or use contract marriage as their solutions.
This work was firstly presented in Hong Kong after showcased in Sweden.
In parallel with:
"Queer Series" Selections, Monique Yim, exhibited in "Sex/Gender Reinterpretation";
"Artist Talk: Monique Yim: LGBTQ Performance and Intermedia Artworks", grand opening, presented in "Sex/Gender Reinterpretation";
"Workshop: Monique Yim: Art and Mindfulness for LGBTQ Community", presented in "Hong Kong Queer Literary and Cultural Festival 2019"
Acknowledgement:
Supported by Pure Art Foundation and Sunpride Foundation
Catalogue:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uJDCwYTKkpkWg66qkl68486b6pPdafgI/view
《酷兒系列十四：情詩 II》
2019
L1 藝廊，賽馬會創意藝術中心，香港
「性/別再讀」，「第三屆香港同讀文化節2019」
行為藝術
合作者王穎兒
她們分別以對自己和對別人的吻，譜出對對方的情詩。
作品講述華人同志世界普遍面對的生活掙扎處境，隱喻他們因著難於面對出櫃後所帶來的家庭和社會壓力，而往往無奈選擇獨身或形婚等解決辦法。
作品於瑞典的國際藝術節發表後，首次於香港展演。
同步進行：
"酷兒系列"精選作品，嚴穎嘉，展於《性/別 再讀》展覽 ;
"講座: 嚴穎嘉: LGBTQ行為與多媒介藝術作品"，設於《性/別 再讀》展覽開幕 ;
"工作坊: 嚴穎嘉: 藝術與靜觀"，設於第三屆香港同讀文化節2019
鳴謝：
Pure Art Foundation及驕陽基金會贊助
冊子：
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uJDCwYTKkpkWg66qkl68486b6pPdafgI/view
