Dear Souvenir

Man Yau’s two-piece work Dear Souvenir displays a hand-held fan that has been taken apart. The bronze sculpture is placed on the facade of the new Kuninkaantammi school and daycare centre; a ceramic piece taken from the sculpture is placed inside the school.

A fan is a traditional medium of storytelling. When a fan is split into pieces and one of the pieces is placed in a new context, the fan’s s ...