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HKFP Lens: Hong Kong artist sells Covid-19 quarantine art to help the homeless


Hong Kong artist Martin Lever has launched a fundraiser to help the city’s homeless community by selling artwork he created during his compulsory Covid-19 quarantine in October last year.

By: Martin Lever.

The prints form the “The Room 202 Project” collection, a name derived from the hotel room in which Lever spent quarantine. Part pseudo-psychology experiment, part charity art project, the pieces capture his changing lockdown moods by depicting exactly the same view from his hotel room at two different times of the day. 

By: Martin Lever.
By: Martin Lever.

The artist – who has lived in Hong Kong on and off for almost four decades – said the 14 days he spent in quarantine gave him heightened empathy for the homeless. “Deprived of the liberty to return home, my empathy for those less fortunate in society who have no home to go to was suddenly amplified,” Lever wrote in his introduction to the project.



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