Her name is Lucie Chang — a gallerist, yes, but more than that, a quiet guardian of memory.
She founded Lucie Chang Fine Arts over a decade ago in Hong Kong. Many would assume she simply buys and sells artwork. But her purpose runs deeper: "I travel around the world to bring all these beauties back home," she says, "These things should be in China."
She hand-carried Qing dynasty porcelain back from Paris. She collects original ink manuscripts by Old Master Q and rare works by the King of Kowloon — not just artifacts, but evidence of a culture, fragments of a vanishing identity.
She doesn't speak in slogans. She doesn't shout "preserve culture" from a podium.
Instead, she opens a gallery. She puts up a wall. She hangs a memory. One by one, she teaches people to look again — to see street graffiti not as vandalism, but as art. To see the King of Kowloon not as myth, but as part of Hong Kong's living, breathing history."I've been living with art throughout my life," she says, "It's in my DNA. I need to work in art."
Her love for Hong Kong is not loud or performative — it is deliberate, persistent, and deeply personal. Like a ribbon of memory woven stitch by stitch.
She creates space for young local artists. She brings forgotten names back to the surface.
"The King of Kowloon is Hong Kong's collective memory," she says, "His writing is like a mini script of modern Hong Kong history."
For her, art is not just about beauty. It is about identity. It is about remembering. About resisting the slow erosion of who we are.
Her gallery is a battlefield — not of noise, but of conviction. No banners. No slogans. Just the quiet, burning insistence that Hong Kong's soul is worth keeping.
(Reporter: Liu Yu; Cameraman: Felicia Li, Ian Lau; Video editor: Ian Lau; Editor: Felicia Li, Liu Yu)
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