The Comment

In the context of an exhibition parallel to the Hong Kong Art Fair 2011, in which the curatorial premise was to use only text, this piece was conceived as a preface to a series of works based on the book "Pilgrimage" by Fernao Mendes Pinto (circa 1614).

The sentence written in old Portuguese can be translated into: " in which is told the many and very strange things he saw and heard in the kingdom of China". Pilgrimage, is a traveller diary, that describes the journeys of the writer in Asia. However it has been the subject for an extensive debate on its historical veracity.

The sentence placed in acrylic characters outside the space where the fair was being held, creates a parallelism between the ambiguity of history, and the determinant role of the art fair, which dictates, under economical values, the historical path of art in Asia.