This Chinese New Year, Kwai Chai Hong comes alive with a whimsical and eclectic art installation themed “Poetic Spring Garden” to welcome the Year of the Rabbit.
The immersive installation tucked within the historic laneway in Kuala Lumpur Chinatown showcases traditional Chinese calligraphy in bold, non-conventional representation and over-sized blossoms, foliage, rabbits and butterflies.
Presented by local artist Jaemy C, the installation titled “Wet Hot Spring Thing” has hidden cryptic messages for visitors to decipher and full of photo opportunities.
“I am super excited to collaborate with Kwai Chai Hong as we share a common belief in the long standing and unique values of cultural preservation.
“The installation is uniquely ours, striking, bold and unabashedly quirky. It also speaks to the masses who differ in culture and language, but share a common appreciation for the Chinese art form and its festive symbolisms,” he said.
Bai Chuan Management managing partner Zeen Chang said Kwai Chai Hong has always been a catalyst for perpetuity in culture and celebrating modernity.
“Through the concept of Poetic Spring Garden, and Jaemy’s brush calligraphy art, we want to deliver tradition to the younger generation in a familiar vehicle without compromising modernisation, simply by speaking in a universal language of visual arts.
“Our astounding installation tells the story of tradition and heritage, and that traditional things like the Chinese calligraphy installation, are not old fashioned.
“We can embrace modernity without forsaking tradition, through a common ground connecting the past and the future. It has always been in Kwai Chai Hong’s DNA,” she said.
The Poetic Spring Garden installation is sponsored by Yes 5G.
YTL Communications chief executive officer Wing K. Lee said this was their first foray into arts and culture through collaboration with Kwai Chai Hong.
“Yes ‘5G for All’ remains our mission, and true to the Poetic Spring Garden theme, we want to make Yes 5G more accessible to the business community and Malaysians, even at the corners of the heritage streets of Kwai Chai Hong,” she said.
The Poetic Spring Garden art installation at Kwai Chai Hong is available to the public daily from January 6 to February 12, 2023, 9am to 12 midnight.
