Molotov Cocktail Series

Molotov Cocktail Series

When citizens of the world need to protest against their authoritarian government under the principle of uncivil disobedience, they would often choose bricks and the Molotov Cocktails. The artist studied how real Molotov cocktails were constructed during the 2019 Anti-Extradition Law Movement in Hong Kong then recreated them with glass beer bottle, sugar, and coloured pigment. The bottle was then casted into resin, the casting process yields temperature well over 100 degrees Celsius, the entire cast was then dropped into iced water for cooling eventually locking the air bubbles within the resin, giving its explosive look. Although this artwork was created as early as 2019 but the artists never exhibit it in Hong Kong, worrying that the red line might link to few years in prison or worst.

在武力抗爭的時代，世界公民如果要抗議他們的專權政府，大多數都會採用磚頭或是莫洛托夫雞尾酒汽油彈。藝術家從2019香港「反送中運動」中研究「莫洛托夫雞尾酒」的製作方法，並且用啤酒樽、糖、及顏料進行仿製。玻璃樽倒進樹脂膠並倒模鑄件，倒模過程溫度先提升到超過攝氏100度，模具再放進冰水內降溫把氣泡凝固在樹脂膠內，創造出準備爆炸前的動態感覺。雖然這作品早於2019年已在香港製成，但因被捕的政治風險，從來沒有在香港展出過。

Beer bottles, pigment, sugar, cloth, & resin

2019