‘18 Days’ is a project looking at the significance of the relics of war in Hong Kong: their role in memory, as reliquary, our interaction with them and their ‘roots’ in history and the roots of their destruction.

Once numerous, the structures are threatened. Time exacerbates deterioration from the elemental damage of both humans and nature alike.

From seeds to trees, from sand to sea, from wind to fire, from sun to rain and vandalism to the encroachment of development, they all take their toll.

Unprotected, there is an eerie beauty in their decay and return to nature; a stillness that contrasts what they represent. 

They are temporally static marking a time of defeat and military collapse. They face omission from the new narrative and no place in a modern ‘Theatre of War’. Only with memory, present-day interaction, or future modified use can they bridge time and hold value.

On the 14th of April 2022, 18 Days was presented as a guerrilla installation at the WW2 bunker at Waterfall Bay Hong Kong.

A projected video loop accompanied prints hung against the graffitied walls.

Pillbox 006 was completed in 1939 for use by the British Beach Defence Unit. The bunker has been significantly vandalised, layered with graffiti and is corroding from inside the walls as the steel rebars become exposed to sea spray.