There is no official account of who was responsible for the hundreds of bullet holes. Historically they have simply been put down to ‘enemy fire’. In this instance – a site of shifting power and conflict - the ‘enemy’ remains anonymous and indefinite. Leung continues his interest in the relativity of perception; how certain histories - and memories -shape our understanding of the world around us; how history is represented and interpreted.
Photographs of the close up bullet holes form light installations which include texts (in English, Japanese and Chinese) etched upon them, these range from a statement by a Japanese tourist to Only time can tell, the response of Zbigniew Brzezinski former National Security Advisor to Jimmy Carter, commenting upon the One Country Two Systems policy. Another quote includes I’m glad we have been bombed, the now famous quote by Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother after Buckingham Palace was bombed by Germany’s Luftwaffe in 1940.
Other elements of the series include a lightbox with a 1913 quote by Webb referring to his desire to beautify London south of the river and a set of twelve marble sculptures, each a letter spelling ‘ENEMY BOMBING’ modeled on a commemorative inscription on the Aston Webb facade of the V&A, London after it was bombed.