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21 January - 27 February 2022
Wure Area, Hong Kong

Usage of valediction in the letter structure is flooded due to thousands of sending and receiving. The customary and formal blessings may cover up the sincerity.

"Close", the exhibition topic, is challenging the possibility of becoming a valediction, which can comprehend as closed, not open, to end, to stop operating, careful, secretive, lacking air, near, similar, intimacy and so on. This magic ending word requires both the sender and receiver to believe in each other to align the corresponding interpretation even they are having different values of perspective for their relationship.

Four participating artists, who are often involved in image processing, developed their personal relationship diagrams through the early, middle, and late stages of image processing. All kinds of relationships develop as phenomena through the effort of the involved one, it is a mixture of all dictions of close.

文字式通訊的結構應用泛濫，信件中的結束語經歷了萬千次的往來，當中慣用的禮儀與祝願不免過多，形式上的祝福難免掩蓋了不少真實的誠意與期昐。

展覽題目是想像以“Close”成為結束語的可能性，五個英文字母組合後可以解讀成關閉、不開放、停止、結尾、密切的、團結的、親密的、仔細的、隱秘的或封閉的等等，甲方與乙方彼此渴望、確實和應有的關係在各自的世界觀下存在著分歧。含糊的結束語在挑戰彼此的差異，當信任對方的文字時，才能讓密語成立。

你的真誠和你的忠誠何時會如實呢？

LIAO JIAMING

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