The Saddest Place on Earth visits Macau: An exhibition on Plushes and Sorrow by Mimipong (Oct 1st)
This October, Singaporean design collective Mimipong will showcase their Hug Your Sorrow plush toys in a month-long exhibition. Titled The Saddest Place on Earth vists Macau ~ to be held at Pinto Musica.
The exhibition runs from 1 October 2009 to 31 October 2009 at Pinto Musica, 2B, Veng Heng Largo do Senado 31, and is open to all art and plush enthusiasts. On sale at the exhibition will be Hug Your Sorrow tear dolls, postcards, pins and exhibition cataglog featuring the compilation of all the works. Also premiering are 2 exclusively designed Tear dolls for the Macau show. Shown above-right is a new doll featuring a tag written by Bubi Au Yueng.
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PRESS: The Saddest Place on Earth visits Macau is a collaborative effort between Pinto Livros and Mimipong’s successful line of tear dolls together with creative professionals from Macau, Hong Kong and Singapore. The writers – selected from a diverse range of backgrounds – were invited to pen their unique interpretations of sadness on the dolls’ cloth tags which has been translated into traditional chinese from the original english tag. This exhibition is made possible by Singapore based chinese copy-writer and journalist, mr. Capricorn, who aided with all the copy translation and direction for the show.
Among the luminaries participating in The Saddest Place on Earth are critically acclaimed Hong Kong's indie songstress The Pancakes, Hong Kong-based toy designer of popular Treeson vinyl figures Bubi Auyong as well as Singapore's theatre director and the author of 5 publications, Danny Yeo. On the homegrown front, the exhibition features Macau's Fine Artist Bianca Lei, writer of travel guide Macau Nohohon's Misa Katawa, architect and founder of OH-MYSTORE's Ryan Leong, Sonia Lao from dream-pop band Evade and many more.
List of participants in no particular order:
Clara Brito (Macau)
Anna Kozaki (Macau)
Winter Chiang (Macau)
Misa Kawata (Macau)
Staci Chio (Macau)
Ti Ya (Macau)
Weng Qiao(Macau)
Tang Zhong (Macau)
Jian Peiyin (Macau)
Gigi Lee (Macau)
Bianca Lei (Macau)
Lin Jiabi, +BIG (Macau)
Ryan Leong (Macau)
Joey Ho (Macau)
Pedro (CheChe Cafe) (Macau)
Jess Chan Sau (Macau)
Pedro Miguel (Macau)
Sonia Lao (Macau)
Siuhan (Macau)
Ricky Lam (Hong Kong)
The Pancakes (Hong Kong)
Bubi AuYueng (Hong Kong)
Joelle Teo (Singapore)
Sokkuan Tye (Singapore)
Danny Yeo (Singapore)
Hug Your Sorrow tear dolls are a conceptual plush creation of Mimipong. Featuring an assortment of embroidered features, each tear plush allows the user to jot down his or her most intimate miseries on an embroidered tag before giving the doll a big hug of comfort. These plush tears, fulfilling the basic function of plush toy as comfort objects in moments of despair, are a winning entry in Next Big Thing 2008, USA's Fred Flare’s annual design competition and are sold across the United States by Kidrobot, a premier creator and retailer of designer toys. The Saddest Place on Earth visits Macau is the second show by Mimipong after their first successful attempt held in Singapore's BooksActually.
For more information, please contact:
Michelle Lin
hello@mimipong.com
Pinto Livros
p330909@macau.ctm.net
(853)28330909
About Mimipong
Ms Mimi is an Art director and a graduate of London College of Communication, her works have been featured in international publications and her illustrations commissioned for editorial and events. Hug Your Sorrow dolls are one of her first forays into the creation of conceptual plush toys.
www.mimipong.com
[TRE last featured Mimipong's Hur Your Sorrows in 2008]
About Pinto Livros
Situated above the hustle and bustle of the St. Domingos district is Pinto Livros. A quaint space that is surprisingly quiet with a fresh breeze blowing through open windows. The walls and walls of books, rows of green potted plants and two resident cats makes a cosy setting for avid readers who would sit for hours soaking up literature and the atmosphere.
