The Many Visual Languages of Macao

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At the East Entrance, the very first work visitors fulfill is difficult to miss out on.

Sit Ka Kit’s The Knight increases in warm gold, taking the familiar Western chess piece and filling it with patterns influenced by Chinese paper-cutting.

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Sit states the concept started with Macao.

“I wished to reveal, through art, this city where Eastern and Western cultures satisfy. “

For him, the knight recommends nerve and forward motion.

The paper-cutting generates another visual custom, while the big steel structure provides both a modern kind.

Beyond Sit’s own description, there is another subtle connection in the option of topic: the horse appears in both Western chess and Chinese chess, playing an essential tactical function in each .

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Sit desired the work to resonate instantly with individuals from around the globe.

The Knight makes a vibrant impression inside your home.

Out in the Green Lawn Garden on Level 3, the art work end up being lighter, looser, and more attuned to their environments.

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At the center sitsLotus Realm by Leong Sin Teng

Its pale petals curl around a little interior area, leaving sufficient space for visitors to stroll within and sit.

As soon as somebody gets in, music starts and the lighting shifts.

City life can be chaotic, and celebration durations typically feature their own rush of events and events.

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Leong wished to develop a little area where individuals might decrease for a while.

Where that time out takes place matters.

“My public art is developed for the location it comes from, “she states.

The lotus brings longstanding associations in Chinese culture, while Leong likewise indicates lotus concepts currently discovered around Grand Lisboa Palace and the larger SJM environment.

Move Lotus Realm somewhere else, she states, and its regional significance modifications.

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A couple of actions away, Jovinia António’s Brocade Scroll records motion in a various method.

Patterned kinds increase above the planting as though captured mid-motion, someplace in between material lifting in the breeze, flower petals opening, and leaves wandering through the air.

For António, a fabric designer and creator of Stardust Journey, fabric and pattern are her familiar area.

The colors in the work go back even more.

She keeps in mind the Macao she matured with through color: the pastel façades of locations such as Albergue SCM and the previous Governor’s Palace, soft in tone however still rather vibrant.

That stuck with her long after she delegated study in the UK.

“Even my instructors felt that the method I utilized color was affected by Macao, and maybe by Portuguese culture,” she remembers.

Purples and other warm, saturated tones continued to appear in her work.

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António created the types around the concept of material reacting to wind– its drape, lift, and sense of movement.

In the garden, the surrounding breeze, foliage, and altering natural light extend that impression.

Perhaps it is material.

Possibly a flower.

Possibly a leaf captured in movement.

” Viewers can choose on their own,” she states.

Close By, Felipe Wong’s Under the Same Moon turns the volume up.

The work makes use of 2 extremely ornamental customs: Chinese cloisonné and Costa Rica’s painted oxcarts.

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Flowers, vines, accessory, and saturated color fill the surface area, together with a character influenced by Wong’s own pet dog.

“That’s my individual story on top of a Costa Rican story,” he states.

Born and raised in Costa Rica and of Chinese heritage, Wong has actually invested more than twenty years working throughout illustration, graffiti, visual style, and art toys.

Links in between Latin and Chinese cultures have actually long term through his work.

The pairing started with nature.

Wong indicates the flowers and vines of cloisonné, then to the farming roots of Costa Rican oxcart painting, where patterns grew around crops, plants, harvest, and abundance.

“So we paint what we like,” he states. “That’s the love for nature that I see that links us.”

In Macao, that connection ends up being more individual.

“Macao is a really unique location for me since, being Latino and Chinese at the very same time, it’s a location where I feel quite in the house.”

He discusses Chinese and Western cultures returning and forth through the city, in some cases staying unique, in some cases discovering unforeseen commonalities.

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That very same ease goes through Under the Same Moon: Chinese enamel customs, Costa Rican folk decor, harvest images, household memories, and one extremely individual little canine, all united in the very same lantern.

Cultural exchange has actually long term through SJM Resorts and the Macao Artist Society’s lantern cooperation.

Earlier editions brought artists and customs from various locations into discussion. This year, the focus turns inward, towards the memories, identities, and methods of seeing that have actually outgrown Macao itself.

That appears particularly fitting for Mid-Autumn here in Macao.

The celebration starts with something shared– the very same moon overhead– while the stories collected below it can originate from really various locations.

The works stay clearly various: a knight, a lotus, patterned kinds captured mid-motion, and a Costa Rican oxcart radiant with color.

They do not require to look alike to belong together.

Maybe that is exactly what deserves commemorating: the commonalities, and all the distinctions that make it richer.

The Lantern Art Exhibition

Up until November 15, 2026

Grand Lisboa Palace Resort Macao

Admission is totally free.

Occurring

• September 19 |Costa Rican Painted Lantern Workshop, MOP125 per individual.

• September 26 |Intangible Cultural Heritage Paper-Cut Lantern Workshop, MOP125 per individual. A minimal variety of complimentary locations will likewise be readily available through Grand Lisboa Palace’s Facebook activity.

• September 24– October 7 |Lantern Riddles, at the Green Lawn Garden, with themed presents and coupons for individuals who finish the activity.

• October 24 |Lantern Sketching Day, consisting of an assisted lantern trip, artist-led sketching, an art package, and a picked meal for 2. Bundles go on sale October 10 from MOP300+ for 2.