As Hong Kong Ponders Its Future Under Beijing, Politics Infuses Its Art

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Recent artworks that address Hong Kong politics vary widely in message and delivery.
Similarly oblique commentaries run through ?Breathing Space: Contemporary Art From Hong Kong,? an 11-artist show on view through July 9 at the Hong Kong Center of the Asia Society, which in November canceled a planned screening of a documentary about the Umbrella Movement, citing political concerns.
Mr.
Wong has said the piece is a commentary on recent crackdowns on free expression in Hong Kong, including the apparent abductions of several prominent booksellers to the mainland in 2015.
All of that leaves local artists struggling to find meaning in the city?s upheavals, art professionals said in interviews.
?Somehow the Umbrella Movement unfolded a lot of layers of the political and social problems? that Hong Kong faces, said Clara Cheung, a co-founder of C&G Artpartment, an art space in the Kowloon district.