宇宙炉火：技术时代的共同生活
Cosmos and Hearth: Living Together in the Age of Technology
2026.07.07 - 2026.09.07, 杭州市拱墅区展览东路150号杭州中心L3 中心美术馆 展厅 A
编织日记_2
林岚
媒介/材质： 装置/回收雨伞骨
尺寸：650 (宽) x 360（高）cm，厚度不定
创作年份： 2026年
集体创作者：陈锐婪，甘晓如，陈彩娥，李燕珊
鸣谢： 香港妇女劳工协会
随着微观经济进入第16年，我的合作队迎来了新的组合，四位年轻的女性。她们平常是稚儿的妈妈，家庭照顾者；在女工会当义工，也是喜欢手工，爱美。2025年始，小组队友们以回收雨伞骨为主要材质，各自独立练习编制各式图样，我称之为《编织日记》。这件新作《编织日记_2》是团队合作，将各人的图样有序地组成新的窗花（metal lace) 手帕。
一把把旧伞被拆解，伞面与骨架分离、重组、交织。遮风挡雨，是雨伞的使命，也是曾为家庭撑起一片天的女性家庭主妇的日常写照。那看似层层的围栏阻隔，又像是巧手编织出来的金属织花（metal lace），软硬兼并，形成了最柔韧的盾墙。坚韧的不只是伞骨，更是制造者隐于柴米油盐中的生命韧性，新时代家庭妇女自握命运的信念。
这件作品，既是女性付出的物证，也是一份持续书写中的集体日记。
Weaving Diary_2
Jaffa Lam
Material: Installation/Recycled umbrella ribs
Dimensions: 650 x 360 cm, Variable depth
Year: 2026
Collaborators: Lorraine Chan, Ruby Gan, Caie Chan, Lee Yan Shan
Special thanks to the Hong Kong Women Worker’s Association
As the micro-economy project entered its 16th year, my collaborative team welcomed new members: four young women. In their daily lives, they are mothers of young children and family caregivers; they volunteer at the Hong Kong Women Worker’s Association, and they share a love for handicrafts and aesthetics. Beginning in 2025, the team members used reclaimed umbrella ribs as their primary medium, independently practicing the weaving of various patterns. This experimentation became a body of work I titled Weaving Diary. This new piece, Weaving Diary_2, systematically organises their individual patterns into a new "metal lace" window grille handkerchief.
Old umbrellas were disassembled—their fabric stripped from the frames, then reorganised and interwoven. To shield against wind and rain is the inherent duty of an umbrella; it is also a poignant reflection of the daily lives of these women, who have long held up the sky for their families. What initially appear as layers of barriers and confinement transform into exquisitely crafted metal lace. Merging the soft with the rigid, they form a most resilient shield. Ultimately, this resilience belongs not just to the umbrella ribs, but to the fortitude of the creators themselves, quieted within the domestic sphere—a testament to the conviction of modern women taking destiny into their own hands.
This artwork serves as both the material evidence of women’s labour and a collective diary that continues to be written.
林岚
作品名称：城市景观
媒介/材质： 装置/回收布料 /杭州西湖區建筑废料
尺寸：250x 37.5cm， 200 (宽) x 30（高）cm，装置数量不定
创作年份： 2024-2026年
集体创作者：梁玮琛，洪翠剑，樊佩汶，李春容，郑美卿
鸣谢： 香港妇女劳工协会
自2009年始至今，我的微观经济计划，与香港妇女劳工协会合作己超过17年了。这几年我把部份的景像选图的工作交给女工们，教他们拍下邻近社区的景观，为她们讲解色彩分布和城市的关系，再将回收布分色系归类、裁剪、拼接，以对应城市社区中的不同景观。有想像的，有真实的，看上去像是城市的共同但不一样的图谱。唯一相同的，是在不同景观中央均放置一条白色水平线，像是遥看对面海港上面真实，下面虚影的分界，或许這也指向了我心中城市永恒不变的部分。
作品曾游展于不同城市，系上当地建筑废料，借此方式探讨城市与自身，以及不同城市之间的关联和差异。
Jaffa Lam
Title: Cityscape
Material: Installation/Recycled fabric/ construction waste from HangZhou Westlake District
Dimensions: 250 x 37.5 cm, 200 x 30 cm, Variable number of pieces
Year: 2024 – 2026
Collaborators:
Leung Wai Shen, Hong Cuijian, Fan Pui Man, Lee Chun Yung, Ada Cheng Mei Hing
Special thanks to the Hong Kong Women Worker’s Association
Since its inception in 2009, my Micro-Economy project’s partnership with the Hong Kong Women Workers' Association has spanned over 17 years. In recent years, the selection of the cityscape imagery has become a shared process with the women, guiding our collective exploration as they photograph the vistas of their own neighbourhoods. Together, we discuss the interplay between colour distribution and the urban environment, subsequently categorising, cutting, and piecing together reclaimed fabric by palette to mirror the diverse landscapes of these communities. Blending the imagined with the real, the resulting works form a shared yet distinct atlas of the city.
The singular thread running through these varied landscapes is a white horizontal line positioned at the centre of each piece. It evokes a distant view of the harbour—a boundary separating the tangible reality from the illusory reflection below—perhaps pointing toward what I hold to be the city's immutable core.
This body of work has travelled and been exhibited in various cities, tethered each time to local construction waste. Through this site-specific approach, the installations explore the relationship between a city and its inner self, as well as the resonances and divergences that exist between different urban centres.
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