Parodying Hong Kong’s iconic films, this series of Navin Production signature paintings involved navigating real and imagined territories – cultural, political and social. A set of poster-sized paintings and one billboard, feature portraits of local art luminaries, exploring boundaries between private and public domains, and in the arena of self-identity, further mutates between personal missions and communal goals. While the series of six paintings portrayed famous art celebrities from Hong Kong, the painting Can Navin be the Star? featured the artist in the parodying role of a famous Hong Kongaction movie star, posing questions of image, reality and persona, both self projected and through public interpretation.

The Navin Party also played an important role in this multiplex, incorporating with the Party’s foundation story Navins of Bollywood and Quotations from Comrade Navin series with documentation from the Beijing’s 9^th Navin Party Summit in August 2007. All in all, NAVINSCOPE: Dim Sum Rider conveys the sense of cultural gathering and experiences of certain real or constructed scenarios in Hong Kong and today’s society. Hosted by Asia Art Archive (AAA), an artist’s talk was also organised at Kee Club. The occasion also marked the book launch of Navin’s Salain Hong Kong.

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