HK Compartment Habitat is the first of the HK series, an acronym for Hong Kong. Compartment for cramped and free slab compartments that have offered from the 60' and 70' the "mansions" of Hong Kong: buildings with a vertical vocation with free surfaces sold to be compartmentalized per square meter, both for housing, tertiary (trade) and industrial. Real beehives, these buildings illustrate both the institutional and informal aspects of what British possession was, between resourceful and obscurity. These gray buildings with an unfinished appearance studded with linens with identical windows for a standardized facade, the only thing "regulated" by the city, give off a feeling of extreme promiscuity and oppression, especially after their rapid decay. An air of science fiction can inspire an artist, somewhere between an initial urban utopia and a proven dystopia. The work is punctuated with symbols, landmarks, singular notes, in the absence of humans, because only the observer gives life to what he perceives, as in quantum physics : only what is observed by the experimenter.

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Yuterick Bell.