Ho Tam : lessons

by Ho Tam

Paper Book, 2001

Status

Available

Call number

MON.TAH.01

Publication

Toronto : Gallery TPW, [2001]

Language

Physical description

20 p.; 22 inches

ISBN

1894653025 / 9781894653022

Call number

MON.TAH.01

Library's review

Catalogue for Ho Tam's solo exhibition of the same name, held at Gallery TPW in Toronto from January 11 - February 17, 2001.

Through a series of photographs (some which are stills, originally shot on videotape and then photographed on-screen), Ho Tam reflects on personal childhood memories on a
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return visit to La Salle, a Catholic boys school he attended in Hong Kong.

'Lessons' reveals the collective schooling experience and the 'lessons' learned during these formative years - love, desire, discipline, trust, fear and innocence. It also brings to light a larger imprint of a colonial past.
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Pages

20
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