A Toy Story: Toxic Teddies and Sadistic Care Bears in Hong Kong
Don't Cry in the Morning: Art Toys in the Post-Colony At Streams, Hong Kong, what was once the region's centre of toy manufacturing becomes a trippy tumble into a world of toxic teddies and sadistic Care Bears With its fortune-cookie head and baked-dough body, Fuku (2017) – designed by artist duo Don’t Cry in the Morning (DCITM) – is the Hong Kong diaspora’s cookie monster. DCITM launched in 2013 when co-founders ASA and Poppy began casting resin toys from polymer clay models based on their illustrations. Currently showing at Streams Hong Kong, ‘Hugger Fuku Tow...
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