UA 黃埔,一九九三年八月六日
UA Whampoa, 6th August 1993
(a set of 6)
Colorpencil and acrylic on paper mounted on board
68 x 102 cm
2015 


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一九九三年香港發生了轟動社會的案件。
按照中文維基百科，青年林國偉於分別姦劫了十三名女性，並且殺害了其中三名。
一九九三年八月五日，他強姦了最後一名女孩。
他向她索取電話號碼，翌日相約她去看電影。
當夜她在其兄陪同下，報警。
第二天警方在UA黃埔戲院門外把青年拘捕。

二十年後，何倩彤就此研讀相關資料，
發現案情的不同報導有不少參差之處，及未可斷定的地方，
甚至包括受害者人數，案發日期。 

當日UA黃埔戲院上映六部電影。何倩彤把二人可能會看的六部電影的海報畫出。
掏空了圖像，獨餘托起圖像的底色或外框，或煽情或世俗的宣傳標語。
這個看電影約會帶來的荒謬和懸念，何倩彤捕捉了僅僅擦肩而過的一刻。
欲望、建制、道德、集體、儀式、 善惡、永恆等等同時施加於一段「關係」的作用，
令它擺盪在極端、殘酷、殊異（強姦者接近被姦者）和最是日常（觀影）之間。

——節錄自黃靜〈言愛〉

In 1993, an incident occurred which shocked the Hong Kong public. 

According to an account published in the Chinese-language version of Wikipedia, that year a young man named Lam Kwok-wai had raped a total of 13 women and girls, and murdered three of them. 

On August 5th 1993, he raped his ninth victim. After the rape, he asked her for her phone number, and made a date to go to the movies with her the following day. That same night, the girl went to the police station to report the crime, accompanied by her older brother. 

The next day the police apprehended Lam outside the front entrance of the UA Whampoa cinema.

Twenty years later, when Ho Sin Tung was researching this case, she discovered that there were a number of discrepancies in the different newspaper accounts, and many unclear areas, even including the number of victims and the dates on which the crimes took place.

On August 6th, the UA Whampoa was screening six different films. Ho Sing Tung made drawings of these posters, representing films the couple might have watched that day. But in her drawings Ho deleted the central image from each poster, leaving only the background colour and the surrounding borders, and the sentimental or vulgar promotional texts. She captures the absurdity and suspense of a ‘movie date’ that was in reality only the briefest of encounters. Many elements are woven into this ‘relationship’:  desire, structure, morality, community, ritual, good and evil, eternity, 
as the relationship swings between the extremes of cruelty (the rapist trying to get closer to his victim) and of mundanity (the everyday act of watching a film). ​​

​---"Everyone Says I Love You"  Wong Ching