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<h1><strong>Christopher K. Ho<br>何恩懷<br></strong></h1>
<h3><br><em><strong>Return to Order</strong></em><br><strong>2022-2025</strong></h3>
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<p><em><strong>Return to Order</strong></em><br><strong>2022-2025</strong><br><strong>Dimensions variable</strong><br><strong>Brass and aluminum</strong></p>
<p>Christopher K. Ho &rsquo;s <em>Return to Order</em> is an investigation into modernist ideals and their resonance today, reimagining the structural clarity of architectural design through a more ambiguous, shifting engagement with form. The installation comprises 30 small brass and aluminum sculptures, and two large-scale hand-hammered brass sculptures, each emerging from Ho&rsquo;s rigorous adaptation of architect John Hejduk &rsquo;s &lsquo;nine-square grid&rsquo; exercise&mdash;an approach developed in the 1950s to distil architectural fundamentals by incrementally modifying spatial relationships. Ho, an architect by training, translates this methodology into a process of structured improvisation, meticulously plotting, altering, and merging hundreds of digital planes. Over three years, the smaller forms were cast, laser-cut, and milled, and the larger forms welded and hand-hammered, evolving into a suite of works defined by their intricate silhouettes and intersecting angles. Presented together, the sculptures evoke a utopian cityscape or an archive of speculative monuments. Yet viewed individually, their real-world references remain elusive. Some suggest fragments of infrastructure, others hint at animal forms, jigsaw pieces, or the folds of a nautical flag. Their shifting presence invites an almost Rorschach-like engagement, where perception evolves as viewers move through the installation. <em>Return to Order</em> subtly juxtaposes the rationality of modernism with the disruptions of migration and memory. What appears as a stable, ordered composition gradually reveals itself as a meditation on instability and the fluid nature of identity. Through this interplay of abstraction and materiality, Ho creates a space to consider how constructed systems&mdash;architectural, social, or personal&mdash;shape our understanding of history and place.</p>
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<p>《<strong>Return to Order》<br>2022-2025<br>尺寸不定<br>黃銅及鋁<br><br></strong></p>
<p>何恩懷的作品《Return to Order》是對現代主義理想及其當代意義的探索，通過更為模糊、流動的形式重新想像建築設計的結構清晰性。這件裝置由30件小型黃銅和鋁製雕塑，以及兩件大型手工錘製黃銅雕塑組成，每件作品都源自何恩懷對建築師約翰．海杜克的「九宮格」練習的嚴謹改編&mdash;&mdash;這種方法於上世紀50年代開發，通過逐步調整空間關係來提煉建築的基本要素。憑藉其建築師的專業背景，何恩懷將這一方法理論轉化為結構化的即興創作過程，精心規劃、調整並融合數百個數碼平面。歷時三年，這些小型作品經過鑄造、鐳射切割和機械加工，大型作品則經過焊接及手工錘製，逐漸形成了一系列輪廓複雜、角度交錯的作品。當這些雕塑集中展示時，就會宛如烏托邦式的城市景觀或是某種理論性的記錄。然而單獨觀賞時，它們與現實世界的關聯卻顯得撲朔迷離。有些暗示碎片化的基礎設施，有些則隱約呈現出動物形態、拼圖碎片或航海旗幟的褶皺。它們流動的存在感為觀眾帶來羅夏墨蹟測驗般的體驗，隨著觀眾在裝置間移動，他們的感知也隨之演變。《Return to Order》巧妙地將現代主義的理性與遷移及記憶的斷裂並置。表面上看似穩定有序的構圖逐漸顯露出對不穩定性和身份流動性的思考。通過抽象與物質性的交織，何恩懷創造了一個思考空間，探索無論是關乎建築、社會還是個人的構建系統，是如何塑造我們對歷史與地點的理解。</p>
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<p>Born 1974 in Hong Kong<br>Lives and works in Hong Kong</p>
<p>1974年出生於香港<br>現於香港生活和工作</p>

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