It’s believed that an image is a sight which has been recreated, an appearance detached from the place and time in which it was first seen, and preserved – for a few moments or a few centuries. However it is the bond between the artist’s and our own way of seeing that enables us to sense the place and time of an image.

Thierry Arensma proposes a way to read Hong Kong which reflects the multitude of layers that are contained in the city itself. His artistic process combined with his gaze magically captures simultaneously the concept of space and the evolution of time leading us to sense a suspended, timeless, almost unreal city atmosphere. A sort of distant transmission of a subject that becomes instead a more intuitive exploration of mood, form and vision.

In his City Vision Arensma presents a space as emotionally charged forms where past and future melt into the eternal now.

Elisa Martinelli manager and curator at
ArtMoorHouse London