CURRENT EXHIBITION

 19.10 - 24.11.2019

South Korean-born German philosopher Byung-Chul Han quoted an example to explain Giorgio Agamben’s concept of ‘profanation’: During the recession period in Greece, a group of children discovered a large amount of banknotes in a ruined house. Instead of using them in the way money is supposed to be used, they started playing with it, tearing it to shreds. Profanation is an act of taking sacred things and turning them into mortal usage. By quoting this example, Han portrays a post-apocalyptic world where money has lost its meaning, and we are shredding paper for fun, like the act of ‘profanation’ by the children. 

Curated by Suze Chan and Alex Yiu with artists Chan Moon, Vunkwan Tam, Harry Chan, Suze Chan, Mia Chu, Wong Tsz Yin

23.08 - 22.09.2019 

Gummy candies are soft, gelatin-based chewable sweets. Gummies has a high water content, are available in a wide variety of flavors, and its shape, size, texture are easily manipulable depending on one’s desire and needs. Due to its high sugar content, gummy candies are very high in energy (a.k.a. calories).

By using the colorful and shape-shifting gummies as the point of entry, their works explore themes such as artificial bodies, beauty, corporeal desire, resistance, fluidity, and flexibility. 

Curated by KY Wong with artists Alysa Chan, Chan Ka Kiu Clair, Cheng Ting Ting, Ho Sin Tung, Irving Cheung,  Tsang Ching Sadako, Yu Shuk Pui Bobby

13.07 - 18.08.2019

The multi-component show includes new sculptural, sonic, architectural, and two-dimensional work. It continues Ho’s investigation into the perils and potentials of transnationalism. The topic resonates with the artist, who since 2016 has with greater frequency returned to Hong Kong after living and working in the States for several decades. The exhibition draws reference from political histories, transnational desires and infrastructures that mediate our travel, both consciously and unconsciously experienced. 

13.05 - 30.06.2019

Being good means acting the same perfect way — but there are so many ways to be bad. Creativity and genius can be bad. Fluidity and queerness can be bad. Enjoyment and exuberance can be bad. For Father and Mother, even autonomy and independence can be bad.

Society normalizes our bodies to make sure we are good. We’d rather take flight in being bad. Just as the mechanisms of life have evolved by hacking our genetics with bad copies, we will use our bad bodies to hack the hegemonic systems of patriarchy, hetero-, and homo-normativity. 

Curated by Nick Yu with artists Ip Wai Lung, Samak Kosem, Isaac Chong Wai, Mary Maggic, Rob Crosse, and Eisa Jocson

22.03 - 05.05.2019 

Fragrant Little Haven takes a description from Geoffrey Robley Sayer. Hong Kong, means fragrant harbour in Chinese, was only a name of a village at the south of Hong Kong Island before the English came. It was a harbour for transporting the luxury Aquilaria sinensis trees, which produces agarwood, a valuable fragrant wood used for incense and medicine. One and half centuries have past, the artist found out that at least 180 streets in Hong Kong were named after plants.   
 

04.03 - 13.03.2019

As a photographer, Siu Wai Hang’s practice explores the fundamentals of the medium of photography, while creating social and historical commentary. In this intimate show, Tomorrow Maybe provided an entry point into the artist’s ongoing examination into the medium particularly with time, as experienced, as perceived, both subjectively and collectively, and represented through form.  

01.02.2019 

The exhibition includes notes from Zheng Mahler current research on a virtual history of opium in South East Asia, and transcripts from a forthcoming publication on psychedelics and technology catalysed during their residency at Eaton HK. Taking its cue from Thomas De Quincey’s 1821 text, ‘Confessions of an English Opium Eater,’ the virtual reality experience transports the viewer into a phantasmagoric ‘opium dream’ through various moment’s in the history of opium.