Project Charles & Keith, Fashion Walk, Hong Kong
Museum of Everything Else is a meditation on Hong Kong’s evolving landscapes, where non-human animals thrive amidst the dense human population. This site-specific work documents how these creatures persist, not through vulnerability, but by navigating intense and often difficult histories. Their mysterious presence—against all odds—is nothing short of a miracle. Cows grazing on forgotten patches of land, civets moving along the roads, and porcupines foraging at the edges of the city—these beings adapt and survive in the spaces shaped by urbanity.
Set against the backdrop of Hong Kong’s urban sprawl, Museum of Everything Else reveals that these animals do not simply retreat but actively engage with the city, carving out their own existence alongside humanity. Through his encounters with these elusive figures, Robert Zhao documents their enduring presence, offering a narrative that highlights their complex, symbiotic relationship with human life.
The project presents a photographic composition that documents the lives of these animals in this specific slice of time, capturing their existence amidst Hong Kong’s ongoing transformations. Museum of Everything Else reframes the often unseen through the lens of photography, inviting a reconsideration of the intricate and persistent relationship between urban life and the remarkable resilience of the animals that quietly endure within it.
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