HART HAUS is proud to present Double Blue: An Altered Fairy Tale of Hong Kong (I), featuring Florence Yuk-ki Lee, curated by Danson Wong. 

Continuing the artist’s long-term exploration of “sense of place,” the exhibition transforms urban imagery and fairytale structures through experimental animation. Drifting schools of fish, disappearing coastlines, and intersecting flight paths unfold as floating visual motifs, revealing the complexity and liminality of the city. Here, belonging is reimagined not as a settled identity, but as a practice of temporarily anchoring the self and its shifting emotions within the rhythms of the city.

Every era rewrites its fairy tales, deciding who takes center stage and whose happiness is validated. If Hong Kong had its own fairy tale, what would it look like?

In Jungian psychology, fairy tales are tools for navigating the deep-seated conflicts and desires of the psyche; mirroring the collective unconscious while exploring universal themes of growth, loss, and hope. Against this backdrop, Lee employs AI-assisted processes to map recurring urban narratives of Hong Kong, weaving them with personal emotion and lived experience through experimental animation. She shapes an "Altered Fairy Tale" of the city, transforming the cityscape into two flowing trajectories of blue—ocean and sky—evoking drifting waters and ever-changing clouds.These blue trajectories intersects within the exhibition, allowing the city’s narrative to emerge at the confluence of tides and flight paths:  the ocean chronicles the history of urban time, while the sky articulates emotional states, creating layered narratives situated between urban landscapes and psychological spaces.

Throughout history, fairy tales have often been rewritten in response to social shifts and cultural needs, showcasing their high degree of variability and heterogeneity. Double Blue seeks to reinterpret the cityscape through the lens of "Altered Fairy Tale," loosening the rigidity of established reality and expand perceptions of the city. Lee constructs a world devoid of fixed protagonists or predetermined endings, where fish, clouds, tides, faint shadows, and urban silhouettes come to life through motion and metamorphosis. Within this space between dream and reality, viewers are invited to rethink the nature and future of the city while experiencing the diversity of Hong Kong's urban stories. This endeavor represents not only a metamorphosis of form, but also a profound emotional response to the moments where language fails.