The Mending Room ENG

1989: Tanks run over protesting students on Tiananmen square. The official number of victims is unannounced. The incident is nowhere to be found in the country's history.

2019: Two million people march on the street in Hong Kong.

2020: A political purge begins.

2024: Article 23 is passed in Hong Kong. Any act of treason, insurrection, sabotage endangering national security can lead to life sentence.

Any event can be erased, but it exists in many sleepless nights, letters from prisons, silenced candelights, screams of bereavement, eyes of tens of millions of billions.

“The Mending Room” is an immersive piece which combines sensorial, participatory and performative elements, in which spectators will experience a fragmented stream of thoughts, roving through hyperrealistic memories, imaginary landscapes and forgotten nightmares.

She has a will of her own.

She exists where she is wanted.

She tries to mend a relentlessly dilating hole.

She brings the spectator on an intimate journey, rooting in search of hope.

Darkness is present. Pandas too to bring comfort.