The Works：Artists Leung Chi-wo & Sarah Wong, photographer Bruno Barbey, in the studio: viola & gui

A duo of visual and conceptual artists: Leung Chi-wo and Sara Wong. They’ve been personal and creative partners for over two decades, collaborating at times, but also retaining their own individual artistic identities.
Born in Morocco, from 1959 to 1960 French photographer Bruno Barbey studied photography and graphic arts at the Ecole des Arts et Métiers in Vevey, Switzerland. Between 1961 and 1964 he photographed the Italian people, with the aim – he says - of capturing the spirit of a nation. During the 1960s he was also commissioned to photograph European and African countries by the Lausanne-based subscription publisher Editions Rencontre. That was the beginning of more than four decades travelling the world as a photographer, and an eventual membership of the Magnum photo agency. In 1968, Barbey and fellow Magnum photographers Marc Riboud and Henri Cartier-Bresson photographed the Paris student movement, an event to which he felt particularly close. In an equally turbulent time, while the Cultural Revolution was still under way, he visited the People’s Republic of China for the first time. The exhibition “China Since 1973” showcases the images he captured both then and later.
For viola player Ren Martin-Doike and guitarist Jiyeon Kim, their two instruments, while seemingly unrelated, can also strike a chord. Well, many harmonious chords in fact. They are here to tell Ben Pelletier why and how.