Artist Introduction: Justin Hui

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Justin Hui is an artist and architect. Hui integrates photography with architectural processes to reconstruct spaces of personal or historical significance. These works question how form mediates in memory, experience, and identity. 

 

His work has been exhibited and supported by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts (2015), Fujifilm Challenge Grant Program (2021), Hong Kong International Photo Festival (2021), and the Venice Architecture Biennale (2023). He earned his Bachelors of Architecture from Cornell University with the Charles Goodwin Sands Memorial Award. He is a registered architect in the United States and has practised at Herzog & de Meuron in Basel and the Office for Metropolitan Architecture in Rotterdam. 

 

“Searching for Poon”

 

 

When my grandmother began losing her memory, her photographs became clues to a history I never knew. I used her images to trace her journey from mainland China into Hong Kong, imagining around the fragments of her life. In the absence of her past, I became the architect of her memories. 

 

Measuring from memory, I began building places that no longer existed, but might still linger in her fading mind. Memories are clarified back into existence, lying somewhere between reality and my recollections of it, in the details of a photograph and spaces beyond. As her reality and my imagination converge, our bond strengthens, bridging histories across generations and places.

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