The Explorer Map
Ink rubbing on paper, wood board
Size variable
2025
勘探者地圖
水墨紙本拓印、木板
尺寸可變
2025
This series of artwork was exhibited in Memory Smuggler: A First Quartet at To Art House, Hong Kong. In this exhibition, Chu employed quasi-archaeological methods to delve into the settlements and ruins in the hills of Fo Tan. Through her research, she conducted numerous field trips to the mountainous Fo Tan area, exploring remote abandoned villages, interviewing the remaining residents, and collecting artifacts.
One of the key pieces in the exhibition is The Explorer Map, which reflects the areas she navigated during her investigations. Created using tayin (拓印), a traditional Chinese printing technique, the map consolidates various layers of geological and cultural information, such as the locations of residencies and abandoned villages, terrain details, contour lines, and the height of the mountain area.
Chu’s routes through the region are uniquely marked on the map with shattered glass, a material that resonates with the themes and aesthetics of her other works featured in the exhibition.
Related exhibition 相關展覽
2025 "Memory Smuggler", To Art House, Hong Kong 《九仞》，嚮渡藝術，香港
Press coverage 相關報導
2025 盧真瑜、韓祺疇，〈【九仞展覽詩輯】每一座倖存的山，如何僥倖地認知自身〉，虛詞，2025年7月26日。 (Lo Chun Yu, Hon Ki Chau, "【Memory Smuggler Poetry Seriesre】How can each surviving mountain, by some chance, come to recognize itself", p-articles, 26 July 2025.) (Chinese only)
Image 1--4: Photos by Wong Pak Hang and commissioned by To Art House. Image 5: Photo by Steamy Fan. Courtesy of Panda Chow Studio. Image 6--7: Photos by Chu Lok Ting, Natalie. Courtesy of Chu Lok Ting, Natalie.