In the past year,
has continued to pay attention to the memories of Hong Kong actresses who were extremely beautiful.
After 40 years of life,
they are still in excellent condition.
can wear clothes from 20 years ago.
is exploring their own interests.
Karen Mok held a small art exhibition in Hong Kong.
re-exhibited the bold and avant-garde photo album from 20 years ago.
Now 53 years old, she often appears without makeup,
with a natural sense of relaxation.
She walked her five dogs on the street and interacted intimately with her husband.
She seemed to have returned to the body of the spirited girl who sang "Suddenly".
Gigi Leung held her first ceramic art exhibition in her life.
She used white porcelain clay to create the blooming, withering and nothingness of flowers.
Compared with life, "There are the most beautiful seasons, but I don't miss them."
She said: "Actually, you don't have to be so entangled.
After the age of 40, you have to be your own master."
Karen Lam has a small pottery studio in Kwun Tong, Hong Kong.
In the past three years, she has often come here to make pottery and spend time alone.
She held a ceramics exhibition,
also combined ceramics with stage plays,
explored the pain in the mother-daughter relationship during childhood.
"When you reach the age of 45, you can still have ideals,
and not just be a good mother and a good wife."
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Mok Wenwei's photo works in the "Mo Hou Guangnian" exhibition
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The photo album " "Wen Cheng Wu Wei" works
I accidentally learned that my former colleague opened a gallery, and I thought that of course we have to do something, so why not do an exhibition to commemorate the 30th anniversary of our debut.
30 has accumulated a lot of things, one of the highlights is this photo album of "Wen Cheng Wu Wei" published 20 years ago. At that time, there were only less than 1,000 very limited physical copies of the book. After the books were sold out and donated to charity, they were out of print. I thought it was no good, and now I want to let more people see it electronically.
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The small room in the exhibition simulates the dressing room before the performance
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The photo wall in the exhibition
The cover of "Full Body Karen Mok" was taken in 1996 and is also the same name for my 1997 album. I had been in the industry for four years at that time and had intensively filmed many movies, such as "The God of Cookery", "Westward Journey", "Fallen Angel"... Later I joined Rolling Stone Records, and from then on I focused on the creation of Mandarin songs, because Cantonese The pronunciations of "xin" and "body" here are the same, which is like a brand new departure in music.
It is true that I was not wearing anything when I was shooting, but I have always believed that sexiness is an expression of inner attitude, not how much you expose. You can show nothing and still be sexy. You have to be confident to exude charm.
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In 2004, Karen Mok became the Animals Asia Fund's "Saving the Black Bear Charity Ambassador"
These photos are really avant-garde. I really like to use body language to express what I want to say. In some of the pictures, I attached very long wigs and cut them down to cover my naked body. I am firmly against wearing fur. I just want to say that we humans have our own hair, which can be used to decorate ourselves just like clothes. There is no need to kill wild animals and use their hair to cover ourselves.
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On the day of the shooting, Karen Mok attended a media event
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After leaving the gallery, I met a dog walker. Karen Mok took a photo with the dog.
My feelings for animals may have been cultivated since I was very young. I have regarded myself as a puppy since I was a child. Every morning I ask my grandma to comb my hair and tie it into two braids, like two cute dog ears. Then I ask my grandma to take me for a walk in the park, as if It’s like walking a dog, I’m the puppy (laughs).
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"Mo Hou Guangnian" exhibition view
Slowly I discovered that my personality is more like a cat. Later, my father explained to me that my name came from a sentence in the Book of Changes: “A gentleman’s change is reflected in his literary talent."It describes that the patterns on a leopard become more and more beautiful over time, and the same goes for people. The more they experience, the more beautiful they grow. I want to live out the meaning of my name. I also took a group photo in the photo album For photos, draw leopard prints directly on the body.
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Karen Mok’s red-hair style in Wong Kar-Wai’s film “Fallen Angels”, 1995
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Karen Mok’s short-haired image
I’ve known since I was 3 years old that I wanted to act, and I enjoy it Standing under the lights to show yourself to the audience, so I took advantage of various opportunities to perform, participate in competitions or plays since childhood.
In those days, you wouldn’t go around telling people that you want to be a star. People would think, “Wow, are you dreaming?” , it’s not ok (laughs).
Later, when I was in college, I was chatting with my mother one day. I said that I wanted to work in acting. My mother was a little surprised, but she didn’t think it was bad. Instead, she supported me. Whatever I wanted to do since I was a child Whatever I do, my family really gives me unlimited support.
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In "Wen Cheng Wu Wei", photos taken by Karen Mok in Tibet
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In 1999, Mok Wenwei and photographer Xia Yongkang jointly created the cover of the Cantonese album "Going Home"
In 2019, the stunning 25th anniversary concert is coming to an end, and I have decided not to hold large-scale concert tours in the future.
Of course, I am very happy and enjoy the concert, but in the last ten years, I basically just kept going round after round. I have to hold concerts, make a new record, and start another round... So I think it’s enough, I can go to the next thing, absorb new talents and create more interesting new works.
On the other hand, I think this The method is very environmentally unfriendly. I really don’t know where to start. Should I never fly again? I can’t do it, but what can I do? I can only try to reduce my carbon footprint. ), no longer use this method to hold concerts. Will new technologies be added in the future, and there will be new ways to share music?
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June 2021, Stunning 25th Anniversary World Tour Concert
I save everything I wear them very well, I don’t like to throw them away, and I don’t feel like I have to buy new clothes all the time. The important thing is that my figure has not changed and I can always wear the old clothes. One day at a stage performance, I wore a mesh As for the clothes, the very smart fans below saw it and asked, wow, is this the outfit I wore for a photo shoot 20 years ago? I said yes, yes, it’s really that one.
I am 53 years old. Mentality is very important. If you can stay happy and young at heart, you can also look young. I once said in the media that I don’t want children. I know what I want, and I haven’t struggled with it.
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Gigi Leung at the ceramics exhibition
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Gigi Leung makes pottery at Lotte Ceramics Society in Hong Kong
In 2007, I moved to Central for the first time and wanted to find a pottery studio. At that time, I was still busy singing and filming movies. I would do pottery on and off, sometimes very crazily, for two months. Then I would suddenly disappear for eight months and then come back again. I would go to the pottery studio to practice pottery in my spare time.
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Gigi Leung’s ceramic works
She started by making cups, plates, and saucers, then gradually learned to make teapots, and fell in love with making ceramic flowers two years ago. It is a wonderful thing to shape a flower out of clay and preserve the most brilliant moment in its life.
After I learned the basic techniques of making peonies from my teacher, I started to try to make them with white porcelain clay. White porcelain has a kind of translucency. After being fired at high temperature, it is very pure and white, and feels very sacred.
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Gigi Leung is making the stamens of a ceramic flower.
However, the white porcelain clay is very soft. If it is too wet, it cannot be shaped. If it is too hard, it will easily crack. It is difficult to tame. There will be many failed experiences. At that time, I trained myself to have a very calm and strong heart, and only with patience can I overcome it.
I think pottery is very healing for me. When you hold a piece of clay in your hand, don't force it.If you try to overcome its nature, you will definitely fail. Be humble. This is the biggest life lesson that ceramics has taught me.
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A photo of a family of three on the opening day of Gigi Leung's ceramics exhibition
In August this year, two artists and I made a ceramics exhibition called "Flowers, Not Flowers. Utensils, Not Utensils". I express my understanding of life through the four seasons of flowers, from blooming to withering to emptiness.
Some petals go downwards, and I deliberately threw some petals on the ground, creating a sense of incomplete beauty when they hit the floor. In the end, there was a state of nothingness, only white porcelain sand. I spread it in the display cabinet and gently drew a trace on it with my hands, which represented that I had been here. Just like people, in the end we will disappear peacefully and return to nature.
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This year’s domestic tour concert live chorus
Starting in February this year, I took my own understanding of time and used songs from more than 40 albums that I had released before to string together a growth story and hold a concert tour again. .
My fans have been with me for a long time, many of them are in their 25s and 60s. I believe that some people are certainly in a happy mood, and some people must be confused about work, confused about life, facing some practical difficulties, or are struggling, and come to my concert. I also hope to unleash some of their energy.
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Backstage at the concert, my daughter Sofia came to visit
26 I will sing "Short Hair" again. When I was very young, of course I thought it was a very poignant and romantic story. Because it is about a girl who experienced a breakup and wanted to start over, she cut off her hair.
Now I don’t feel so entangled. I even congratulate you that you don’t have much feeling for this song anymore, which means you have let it go.
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A group photo of a family of three
In family education, I think the most important thing is respect. Because two independent individuals, from different backgrounds, raise an independent individual together, which adds up to three independent individuals. If three people always think, "I want to do whatever I want," it will be impossible to be harmonious. Let go of your ego first, then we can become one.
Let’s use teaching children to do homework as an example. It will really make you feel helpless. You feel that the volcano in your heart is about to explode. At that time, we will calm down. We will remind each other to take a deep breath and don’t let your emotions be your master. .
look at each other to see which one of the two is calmer, go with that one. The one who feels that he is about to explode should go have a cup of tea and take a rest (laughs).
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Gigi Leung and her daughter Sofia together
In 2024, I still hope to continue making ceramics. If there is a chance, I would like to do another exhibition. The biggest wish is to have a good concert. From 2023 to 2024, each city touring will have a different presentation and new dances and songs will be prepared.
Every time I do a concert, it feels like it’s the first time or the last time.
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Lin Jiaxin was interviewed in the pottery studio
My pottery studio does not have wifi. When I come here, I want to forget who I am. It is very pure. In Hong Kong, land is at a premium, and houses are generally relatively small. I think it is particularly rare to have a pottery room of your own, so I call it a "temple."
When I make pottery, I just let my mind go - you just listen to your body, because the hands are very honest, not polite to you, and appear directly in the work.
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Lin Jiaxin in the pottery room
Every time she comes into contact with different clay, she seems to be relearning how to be a human being. Clay has many different qualities and has its own personality and temper. For example, white clay is very slippery and smooth when drawing clay, while porcelain clay is very awkward, like a princess, it can get into moods on its own.
It also made me realize one thing again: to know how to fail and to be willing to fail.Firing pottery is like playing with fire, and fire is not something you can control. When I feel complacent, it may turn out to be a complete failure after one kiln is fired - it turns out that you don't know anything and you have to learn humbly.
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Lin Jiaxin makes pottery stools in the studio
Limu Pottery and I pulled out 2,700 raw rice bowls. After smashing them, we made them into an installation art and piled a small hill.
The state of clay after drying is called green. It is very fragile and breaks when touched, just like life. Through this exhibition, we talk about pain, brokenness, unhappiness or anger, and all the bad things. Once we talk about it, we will move on.
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Lin Jiaxin at the "take care you" exhibition
After the exhibition, we recycled the fragments of 2,700 rice bowls, and then stretched and fired them into rice bowls. In those days, as long as you passed by the "Oil Street Realization" installation art center in North Point, you could adopt a job and take it home, and life would still go on as usual.
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Rice bowls made from recycled soil
A few months ago, Director Zhen Yongbei of the Hong Kong New Vision Arts Festival invited me to do a stage play and asked me to write part of the story. She said, "You can write it yourself and act it yourself."
I wanted to write about the relationship between mother and daughter. I think the love between mother and daughter is very special: it is love, but it is also domineering. Because I had to perform in a theater, I asked the director, "Can I make a raw doll head?"
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The raw doll head created by Karen Lam for the stage play
During the 20 minutes of the performance, the doll's face The process of softening when exposed to water is like a baby crying. Watching the face of the green doll slowly collapse and deform, you will wonder: Is this distortion and sadness caused by the mother? Or daughter?
I performed a total of 40 shows and made 40 raw dolls. Today I am going to break the heads of the last three dolls. I find this process very healing. Clay is very tolerant, and every time it is recycled, it seems to be reconciling with oneself.
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Rehearsal and dress rehearsal of Karen Lam's stage play "The Statue"
Once, my eldest daughter said to me, "Mom, I think you love clay more than you love me." I said, you must not say this. Both of my children love to read and read every time they go. I told her, "I will never ask you to give up reading to accompany me, because you will fall into the world of books, which is equivalent to me falling into the world of clay."
She stopped talking immediately, I think she can Understand that it is very valuable and rare to have something you love.
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Lin Jiaxin’s two daughters are watching their mother make pottery
In fact, I think being a mother is the most difficult job in the world. There is no holy book that teaches you how to be a good mother. The relationship between mother and daughter is about seeing each other’s side. Mirror.
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Lin Jiaxin’s Polaroid Photography
After doing pottery, I have less and less time to sleep. After all, pottery is labor, it requires dismantling and moving, and I have no assistant or team, so I do everything by myself. But this is the best thing, because you can learn every step, and you will know how the temperature rises when the kiln is fired. So although I am tired, my hands are very busy, my heart is very calm.
