Greg Girard's Ode to Old Hong Kong Lights Up M+ Museum Facade

The ‘Kowloon Walled City’ photographer presents his analogue archive in a new, cinematic light.

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Greg Girard‘s Hong Kong archive comes home in HK:PM, a new moving image commission, now on view on the facade of the M+ Museum. The Canadian photographer is the latest name to take over the 7,000-square-meter screen, lighting up the waters of Victoria Harbour with a tender tribute to the city’s past.

HK:PM animates analogue photographs from the artist’s personal collection, shot in during his time in Hong Kong between the 1970s and the 1990s. The collection captures life in motion across the crowded streets of Central, the now-demolished Kowloon Walled City and neon-soaked nightclub scenes.

“This commission offers me the unique opportunity to revisit these photographs, transforming fragments of Hong Kong’s recent past into a cinematic sequence,” the artist said in a recent statement.

At last, Girard’s works return to the context of their creation. The commission unpacks old Hong Kong to make anew, paying homage to the then, now and the endless in-between. HK:PM is now on view at the M+ facade every night through September 28.

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