Zolima City Mag

3 days ago | zolimacitymag.com | Christopher DeWolf

In 1991, after months of arduous negotiations, political wrangling and secret meetings, British prime minister John Major and Chinese leader Deng Xiaopeng signed a formal agreement to build a new airport in Hong Kong. Normally, new airports wouldn’t require such high-level diplomatic manoeuvres. But this was no ordinary airport. It was a vote of confidence in the future of Hong Kong, whose time as a British colony would come to an end in 1997. And it wasn’t just an airport.

1 week ago | zolimacitymag.com | Christopher DeWolf

Quick, name a Hong Kong architect. Who comes to mind? Maybe it’s Rocco Yim, who has designed a number of prominent structures including the Central Government Offices and the Hong Kong Palace Museum. Or maybe it’s William Lim, although he is as well known as an artist and art collector as he is an architect. Perhaps it’s Tao Ho, whose avant-garde buildings and focus on sustainability in the 1970s and 80s were well ahead of their time.

2 weeks ago | zolimacitymag.com | Oliver Giles

When Jaffa Lam was approached last October with the opportunity to present a major exhibition in Shenzhen, she wasn’t sure she was up for it. It had been exactly a year since her mother had died, and she was still processing her grief. “I always worked for my mum, to prove to her that I could survive as an artist. I promised her that I could, and that I would take care of her,” says Lam.

2 weeks ago | zolimacitymag.com | Elizabeth Kerr

When is a detective thriller not a detective thriller? When it’s actually the filter through which a marriage drama unfolds. That’s the basic premise of Behind the Shadows (私家偵探), from writer-director Chou Man-yu and co-director Jonathan Li Tsz-chun. Like Steven Soderbergh’s spy thriller Black Bag or Justine Triet’s courtroom drama Anatomy of a Fall, Behind the Shadows hangs an examination of a contemporary relationship on the framework of a genre film.

2 weeks ago | zolimacitymag.com | Christopher DeWolf

Eric Schuldenfrei pushes a button and sends plumes of white smoke through a floor of public housing. It rushes through corridors, spilling into bedrooms and living rooms before spilling out windows into the warm spring air. This is not a real housing estate, of course – it’s a scale model depicting a cutaway view of a floor in a Y-shaped tower.