MUR 022 | MEE PING LEUNG || TIDAL COMMONS
Leung Mee Ping’s residency engages with marine vegetation and the living processes of the shore, focusing on the relationships between seaweed, those who work with it, and the wider coastal ecology. Through close observation of growth cycles and harvesting practices, the project traces how care, labour, and seasonal rhythms shape life along the island’s edge.
Moving between sea, land, and community knowledge, the work unfolds through slow filming and site-based fieldwork attentive to tides, material transformations, and the commons that sustain them. In Tidal Commons, Leung turns to an uninhabited shoreline where human presence recedes, focusing instead on what remains: dried seaweed, shells, fragments of marine plants, and eroded stones shaped by wind and water.
Through repeated acts of walking, pausing, and recording, the project approaches the coast as a site of listening rather than extraction. Attending to absence as much as presence, Leung reflects on forms of life that persist amid depletion and retreat, where what is no longer gathered or visible continues to quietly shape the rhythms of the coastal environment.
Leung Mee Ping is an artist born and based in Hong Kong, engaging in both education and artistic practice. Her work explores the overlooked details of everyday life — from a strand of hair to a passing figure or a broken tile. Through an anthropological lens, Mee conducts site-based fieldwork, collecting subtle fragments as a form of visual inquiry. These elements act as poetic and active agents, reshaping perception and revealing shifting relationships between art and reality.
In past decades, she participated numerous local and international exhibitions such as Nakanojo Biennale; Liverpool Biennial; Busan International Video Art Festival; Irish Museum of Modern Art Residential Exhibition; The Guanzhou Triennial; Suzhou Documents; China Longli International New Media Art Season; Community Art-Bangkok Art Biennale; The Parthenon Museum, Nashville, USA. The Hong Kong Contemporary Art Biennale, Birmingham Eastside Projects.