Conducting social movement art exhibition on streets of London, a painter from Hong Kong: he was questioned of offending the National Security Law by pro-Beijing media, and resignedly to immigrate for creation

Artvocate, a social movement art platform established by Hongkongers who moved to the United Kingdom, held an art exhibition “The Art of Standing” on streets of London showing some of the platform's artworks on social movements in Hong Kong, Myanmar, and Thailand, including the paintings by a Hong Kong couple “Lumli Lumlong”, who moved to the United Kingdom for about 4 months. Lumlong said that freedom is very important to art creation, but in Hong Kong, they “cannot draw, or show those paintings to the public”. They chose to leave to “carry on creating for Hong Kong”.

The exhibition was held at Piccadilly Circus, London City Centre, and Leicester Square, with several people holding and showing about 20 artworks related to the social movement in Hong Kong, Myanmar, and Thailand, including cartoonist Justin Wong's work “Home”, which attracted a lot of attention from pedestrians.

Source: Stand News #Nov07

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