“Lost World. Hongkong.” 3D. Hardi Reiter. 2025. Concrete,

glass, metal, epoxy resin. 28 X 28 cm.

The picture depicts a game of tic-tac-toe, in which the People’s Republic of China and Hong Kong were participants. In the middle of the grid is a Hong Kong $2 coin, symbolizing the principle of “one country, two systems”, which was the basis for the unification of Hong Kong with Red China. After the 2020 protests, democracy was stifled. The 1984 Sino-British Joint Declaration, which would have preserved the autonomy of Hong Kong’s executive, legislative and judicial branches, was also violated. A unfair game, when Red China took advantage of the covid-19 hysteria. Unfair game (Unfair game). Only one side had the right to move.
The author of the work misses the Hong Kong of the past. He always stayed there in a hotel next to Kowloon Park with a “million-dollar view” of Victoria Harbour and the skyscrapers of the Business District.
Kowloon Park was built to replace the Walled City of Kowloon. Interesting story to read… This was a densely populated and largely lawless Chinese enclave within the borders of the former British Hong Kong Kowloon City (2.6 ha, 35,000 inhabitants). There were also schools, churches, temples…

PS! trips traps trull (Tic-Tac-Toe in Estonian) is a Baltic German loanword, meaning: “little, less, the least”.

“Aquarius” 3D. Hardi Reiter. 2025. Concrete, Epoxy resin, LED. 28 X 28 cm.

“2024” 3D. Hardi Reiter. 2025. Book (coins and notes inside), Epoxy resin. Oak frame. 40 X 30 cm.

Hardi Reiter (born 1971) is a Estonian lawyer with over 30 years of work experience, whose side activity is also contemporary art. In his works, he uses concrete and epoxy resin as materials and also adds LED systems to them. He also uses wooden frames, metal, glass photographs, etc. There are two other people in the team.