Cigarette butts, a box of special strawberries in supermarkets, old vehicles parked on the street, rusty recreational facilities in the park, and constantly flashing symbols in the city… These fleeting scenery in daily life were carefully picked up by Macau photographer Puzzleman Leung, put them in his toy box, and pieced together into a series of images with strong colors and colorful images.
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In Puzzleman Leung's perspective, red is not only a color, but also a line of emotion. Just like the superhero cloak that I looked up to in my childhood, it is the cigarette next to my father's mouth and the sense of security that always brings a bit of danger in my memory.
He used the viewing window as a game venue, turned the street into a toy display cabinet, deconstructing reality and reorganizing the ideal scenery in his heart. The moment the shutter fell, he buried his head in his own world like a boy, mixing the past and the present, and mixing it into a color belonging to memory.
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“ROOM OF BOYHOOD” is a game and a kind of gaze. The color blocks, lines and street objects in the work seem random, but in fact they are a visual language from childhood experience. Even though he has lived in Taiwan for many years and traveled to and from Japan frequently, Puzzleman Leung's lens is still permeated with light from Macau – a way he understands the world, a visual filter generated at the junction of life and cities.
A reality of color making
“ROOM OF BOYHOOD” is Puzzleman Leung's first overseas solo exhibition. The venue is 229GALLERY in Tokyo, and it is also a cafe. This is a precious opportunity. Since he participated in the joint exhibition of Beijing Sanyingtang seven or eight years ago, he has rarely made public appearances as a photography artist: “I saw many amazing photographers at that exhibition. They looked like a wall to me. I have always hoped that I could mature before I set out again.”
