Another Side — Rannie Ip Ka Man

A wall is an object burdened with historical and political meaning,
but it also bears a significant load in the domestic and emotional realm. For the artist, a particular shade of pink permeates the affective dimensions of home, family, and labour. The specific colour of the wall that separates the artist’s living room and bedroom, pink is a witness and mediator to the artist’s evolving and at times ambivalent, if not antagonistic, relationship with her mother. Replicating a wall at the artist’s home in scale and colour, the wall is collaboratively painted by
the artist and her mother, who was invited and commissioned to participate in the installation as a full-time painter on construction sites. Mother-daughter dynamics are tried and tested as each approaches the surface with the full force of memory and history behind each stroke.