Paroles is a journal published by l'Alliance Francaise de Hong Kong. In this issue, Josette Balsa and Sonia Au reviews on Hong Kong's debut at the Venice Biennial and Gao Xingjian's retrospective exhibition at Avignon (France) respectively; Gerard Henry features the newly resettled artist village at Cattle Depot (Ma Tau Kok Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong); and Claude Tsang, Hong Kong photographer, deliberates on the medium prior to his exhibition in Macau.

In the news section, Mircowave International Media Art Festival (2001), and the following exhibitions are mentioned: Expectation to Expectation, Citi-Slang, Art Windows, The Gambling Show, Feng Mengbo, Flying Trapeze, Illusions through Pink Spectacles, Hypenation: Contemporary Hong Kong Art.