Songs from the Acid-free Paper Box

Songs from the Acid-free Paper Box

Calligraphy by Nobuyoshi Araki
Lee Ka-sing

Songs from the Acid-free Paper Box
Lee Ka-sing
First published in Canada by OCEAN POUNDS
November, 2022
Paperback edition
ISBN: 978-1-989845-47-9
Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in
Publication
Art, Photography, Poetry
Title -
Songs from the Acid-free Paper Box
Author -
Lee Ka-sing
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Songs from the Acid-free Paper Box
An Installation-On-Paper by Lee Ka-sing, 2022
A suite of sixty photographs in sequence.
Fifty two Fragments of photo paper test-strips from the
80s-90s archive of Ka-sing and Holly’s studio.
In addition, eight new photographs on Kai Chan’s
sculptural objects.
These test-strips included Cibachrome photographs,
fibre-based silver prints, and Chromogenic
colour photographs.
The work was created, on the occasion of
“2K 4.0”, the fourth collaborative exhibition
in Toronto by Kai Chan and Lee Ka-sing.
“Songs from the Acid-free Paper Box”,
an original work in the format of a book, is
12x12 inch, 106 pages, with linen hardcover.
Printed on 216 gsm matte paper,
in a seven-colour digital offset process.
Book issued in Limited Edition of Five.
In this Facsimile Edition, the book
was reduced to 8x10 inch, and photographs
are approximately 65% to the original book.

a poem

Songs from the Acid-free Paper Box

for Holly

An Installation-On-Paper by Lee Ka-sing, 2022
A suite of sixty photographs in sequence

Lee Ka-sing 李 家 昇
A photo-based artist grew up in Hong Kong and resides in Toronto, Canada since 1997. He was the
co-founder of DISLOCATION (1992, with Lau Ching-ping and Holly Lee). In 1995, Ka-sing and Holly
founded OP Print Program, covering a cross-section, with original prints produced by Hong Kong
contemporary photographers in the nineties. Lee Ka-sing was awarded “Artist of the Year” (1989) by
Hong Kong Artists’ Guild, and the Fellowship for Artistic Development (1999) presented by Hong Kong
Arts Development Council. Selected monographs include Thirty-one Photographs (1993, Photo Art),
Forty Poems, photographs 1995-98 (1998, Ocean & Pounds, Hong Kong Arts Development Council
Publication Grant), The Language of Fruits and Vegetables (2004, Hong Kong Heritage Museum),
De ci de là des choses (2006, Editions You-Feng).
In Summer 2019, Sotheby’s gallery Hong Kong presented “Vision of Hong Kong from Two Generations:
Yau Leung and Lee Ka-sing”. The exhibition included two series of Lee Ka-sing’s creative work on Hong
Kong - diptychs (2016-17) and vintage silver photographs (1996-97). Lee Ka-sing’s work is in private and
public collections, and in museums such as Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, M+ Museum
and Hong Kong Heritage Museum.

ALSO BY LEE KA-SING
(selected monographs and exhibition catalogues)
Thirty-one Photographs
Photoart, 1993
Foodscape (with poems by Leung Ping-kwan)
The Original Photograph Club, 1997
Forty Poems (Photographs 1995-98)
O P fotogallery, 1998
The Language of Fruits and Vegetables
(with poem by Leung Ping-kwan)
Ocean Pounds / Hong Kong Heritage Museum, 2004
De ci de là des choses
(with poems by Leung Ping-kwan)
Editions You-Feng, 2006
Revisiting with Yasi
BeingHongKong, 2018
Visions of Hong Kong from Two Generations
(Photographs by Yau Leung and Lee Ka-sing)
Sotheby’s, 2019
CODA
Ocean Pounds, 2020
Eighty Two Photographs
Ocean Pounds, 2021
Swan House
(A two-day visit to Swan House at Napanee)
Ocean Pounds, 2021
Time Machine
(with haiku by Gary Michael Dault)
Ocean Pounds, 2021