Can you place the desires of consumerism, that encourage the fast disposal of the goods and services of our everyday life, side by side with the battle cries of collective memories, that strive to preserve some commonly known objects which have been with us for a while? Jolans Fung attempts to play out these notions with his conceptual photography.To exemplify that Hong Kong is a place filled with contrasts, confusions and contradictions, Fung explores these bemused feelings in his Desire/ Disappearance exhibition at Art Beatus Gallery starting January 4 to 25, 2008.Hong Kong based Fung, finished his training at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France, in 1990. He received scholarships to further his skills at the Chelsea School of Art, London in 1988, the Bundanon Artist in Residence Programme, Australia in 2000 and the Vermont Studio Centre Fellowship in 2004. He has been working as a full time artist since his return to Hong Kong.In the Disappearance series at his up-coming exhibition, Fung focused on some of the structures that were hot in the news such as the Star Ferry Clock Tower, the Queen’s Pier, the Oil Street Government Warehouse that was once an artists’ commune and the aged resettlement estates, that was once Hong Kong’s housing solution for tens of thousands of residents. The Desire series, of course, captured items that were more pleasurable with images from three of the world’s largest shopping malls: Central, Mongkok and Causeway Bay of Hong Kong.