Urban Labyrinth

Urban Labyrinth uses a large-scale camera apparatus and photographic images to examine how extreme density and real-estate pressure shape the emotional texture of urban life.

Urban Labyrinth is a multimedia project combining installation and photography, developed from reflections on Hong Kong’s spatial compression and its psychological aftereffects. Drawing on Louise Nevelson’s sculptural architectures—particularly her use of monochrome surfaces and intricate structural depth—the work translates the city into a constructed “black box”: a camera-like enclosure that frames looking as a physical, spatial experience.
Built from wood panels and finished in matte black, the installation adopts the language of containment—rigid edges, imposing scale, and a centralized emblem that reads as both clock and checkpoint—evoking time discipline and the regulation of movement within the metropolis. Within this dark structure, high-contrast graphic fields—white frames cut by black lines and black surfaces inscribed with white marks—operate as competing visual systems, oscillating between obstruction and orientation. Rather than narrating the city directly, the work stages urban pressure as an optical and bodily condition, asking how hope, visibility, and agency can persist inside environments designed for crowding and control.