'Rigid' Hong Kong office turned into artists' satire

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At first glance, the office desk could belong to any Chinese executive -- but it is in fact part of a defiant art show named "RE:URGENT", challenging Hong Kong's stuffy power structures.

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00:00Thank you very much.

00:30In my time in doing business in China, I went to a lot of laobans, you know, bangongshi,

00:39you know, office of the boss, and I really wanted to sort of copy a lot of that paraphernalia.

00:48You would always have flags on the desk, ashtrays, sometimes an award or a little monument like

00:57this to business, some photographs with a celebrity, this is actually photoshopped.

01:13One thing that I really enjoy in Hong Kong is the culture of people queuing.

01:22It seems that if you don't have a queue outside of your shop, then you're not successful.

01:39The ladders represent the corporate ladder, and the snakes represent other obstacles,

01:44and so in my painting, actually the snakes and the ladders are both obstacles for women

01:49to face.

01:50I just thought it would be a really great idea to subvert the office space that we're

02:01working in every day, because this is sort of like a very rigid space that people won't

02:06really see it being able to contain creative ideas.

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