Hong Kong SAR –
Media Outreach Newswire – 3 April 2025 – Despite Hong Kong’s prosperity, the residents of about a million cities live in poverty and older women are most vulnerable. Many workers are “cardboard giants”, $ 700 per month, without labor protection or recognition of societies.
Based on the statistics of NGOs, Hong Kong has 7,000 cardboard collector and most aged women. This “cardboard grannies” consists of about 138 – 159 metric material every day.
Every week, the more days and more days are collecting and more elderly individuals, for more elderly individuals, the survey of NGOs.
Hong Kong (ELCSS – HK) – Hong Kong (ELCSS – HK) and YWAM Tuen Moon, “Cardboard Grannies Mun” and YWAM Tuen Moon, “Cardboard Grannies Art,” a special day exhibition, which is a special day exhibition that transforms a cardboard that criticized the panel and waste.
Details of the exhibition:
Date: 7 April 2025 (Mon)
Time: 12 PM – 9 PM
Location: M4 Altria, mills,
Special Artist: Hang
How does it work:
This initiative is based on a continuous three-part model designed to create immediate and sustainable change. First,
Fair payment for labor: The card boards used in works of art are compensated well due to their tireless work that has been collected directly through cardboard grannies. Next,
Targeted art: The carton collected, the materials of the social conscious practice were hung the new life. By creative vision, the NCans are becoming 25 strong art works that challenge perceptions of the cardonial value, waste and inequality. Finally,
Impact through Purchase: Every piece of art sold at the exhibition, such as food and insurance, such as food and insurance, for example, to ensure long-term security, the necessary support for them will be funded directly to the cardboard Grannies. With the bridge of art and activity, this project does not increase only awareness – a great and environmentally friendly period for elderly repeated users.
Additional – about artwork
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“I’m a collector”
“I’m a collector” Spotlight-Quickly focused on the art and charm of the art and charm, which is often collected at the fairs, was created in response to the hype. On the contrary, this work is noteworthy, the city’s elderly “cardboard grandmother boxes”, which gathered the cardboard and tin boxes. Often past retirement age, these individuals are exposed to hard weather when they are exposed to hard weather when they push heavy metal carts with steep airports, steep airports and roads along the road. Works, labor, the society around the dignity and really mean what to “collect”. |
HKD30,000 |
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Coin series: “1kgdp”
“1kgdp” During the economic instability, carton stresses the problems facing Grannies. Inspired by the opening of street-repeat cardboard prices, a kilogram of $ 0.5 per kilogram in previous years, the vibration of China’s Hong Kong seizes the impact of foreign factors such as the import of certain waste and violations in the export industry. Each 50-cent coin has a large-scale design of 1 kilogram weight and a large-scale design of 62 centimeters in diameter. Like the predecessor, three types of paper cardboard, A4 paper and newspaper were made. Cardboard symbolizes the progressive nature of the ongoing struggles and livelihoods. |
HKD26,000 |
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Coin series: “Spare load”
“Reserve Change” Hong Kong, who collects and sells the carton as a remedy, reflects the struggles of cardboard grannies. The design is inspired by the average price of the cardboard before when sold $ 0.7 per kilogram. To symbolize this, each edition consists of seven to 10 percent of the total weight of 1 kilogram. Grannies-cardboard, A4 paper and newspaper and newspaper, as well as the newspaper, as well as the reflection of the reflection of many opposite contributions for the continuous role of both the insignificant contributions and the livelihoods. |
Hkd10,400 |
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“So.call Mobility”
“So.call Mobility” (A game on Social Mobility has 180 cardboard bags suspended in six layers. |
HKD500 Each pillow |
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“Shelter”
“Shelter” Inspired by the ink nests of the textile birds to explore the concept of home. Nests in nature symbolize security and stability – it’s a universal instinct for the species. Still in Hong Kong, the idea of the house, the idea of the house often shadows the difficulties of characteristics such as property prices and economic struggles. The nests in this installation are usually made of plastic straps used by cardboard grannies and to protect the cardboard. These modest materials are converted into complex forms, emphasize the sustainability and skills of society’s edges. The installation has 14 “shelters” representing the number of temporary shelters recognized by the government, which is known for homeless people in Hong Kong. In these physical areas, it is a call to face both the opposite and the city’s growing apartment crisis. |
HKD24,000 |
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“Dojin”
“同人” is a word game based on Canton’s word. This piece, which is created for the month of art, re-combining them in the auction homes, after the mimic painted sheet torn, “HK $ 0.5 / kg” shows that the audience sent a strong statement to the local and global wealth. |
HKD4,550-HKD6,550 |
Hashtag: #Cardboardgranniesart
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