GOLDSMITHS | BA Fine Art 2021

Hugh Leung



Water dispenser
If oxygen is not widely commodified and sold, why would water be claimed ownership by merchants and sold in the guise of products under different brand names? Water Dispenser is a sculpture that functions just as well as the water dispensers one would encounter daily. Though three taps are available for choice in the work, the source of the water that flows from them are in fact, connected. The blank tap between the two branded taps in the work symbolises water in its purest form — which is not marketed and processed by factories. Viewers are offered the right to choose from the taps that appeals to them the most — in which the interactivity of the work is meant to be memetic of the day-to-day consumerist activities.
Mixed media, 70 x 34 x 34 cm, 2020
Water dispenser by Hugh Leung

Water dispenser
If oxygen is not widely commodified and sold, why would water be claimed ownership by merchants and sold in the guise of products under different brand names? Water Dispenser is a sculpture that functions just as well as the water dispensers one would encounter daily. Though three taps are available for choice in the work, the source of the water that flows from them are in fact, connected. The blank tap between the two branded taps in the work symbolises water in its purest form — which is not marketed and processed by factories. Viewers are offered the right to choose from the taps that appeals to them the most — in which the interactivity of the work is meant to be memetic of the day-to-day consumerist activities.
Mixed media, 70 x 34 x 34 cm, 2020