Justin Hui

Justin Hui, photo courtesy of the artist

Trained in architecture, Justin reconstructs spaces and events from memory, archives, and imagination. Spanning photography, modeling, drawing, and photogrammetry, these works explore how form shapes our understanding of history, experience, and identity.

Project: Searching For Poon
When my grandmother began losing her memory, her photographs became clues to a history I never knew. I used her images to trace her journey from mainland China into Hong Kong, reconstructing and imagining around the fragments of her life. In the absence of her past, I soon became the architect of her memories.

Measuring from memory, I began building places that no longer existed, but might still linger in her fading mind. Memories are clarified back into existence, lying somewhere between reality and my recollections of it, in the details of a photograph and spaces beyond. As her reality and my imagination converge, our bond strengthens, bridging histories across generations and places.