So, like, the Hong Kong art installation with the yellow raincoats and umbrella won’t be going back up at that famous piazza where they took it down for some restoration stuff last year. The authorities didn’t really say if it was because of politics or whatever, which is kinda shady if you ask me.
One of those fancy art critics said on Monday that the piece didn’t have anything to do with protests and all that drama, so taking it down was totally unnecessary. And apparently, it doesn’t make Hong Kong look good to other countries who see it as this cool mix of East and West culture.
The installation called Lining Up had these ten bronze sculptures of regular people by some artist from Taiwan who’s no longer with us. They were chilling outside the Cultural Centre in Tsim Sha Tsui for ages before the government decided to do some maintenance on them. Two of the figures were wearing yellow raincoats and another one had a matching umbrella.
And you know, in Hong Kong, yellow is all about those anti-government protesters. So, the department covered up the sculptures with some hoarding in April last year.
I’m not really sure why this matters, but the sculptures are still in storage. Maybe they’ll put them back up someday, who knows? But for now, they’re just hanging out, waiting for their big comeback.
