Behind Your Eyelid
WHAT
Internationally renowned Swiss media artist Pipilotti Rist is known for her colourful palette. From her early music-video-style works to her later immersive projection environments, Rist’s unique artistic vocabulary is rooted in popular culture, technology, human body, nature and historical feminist video art. This major exhibition brings together Rist’s iconic works from the past three decades and newly-produced site-specific works across Tai Kwun.
WHY
Highly immersive, profoundly sensual, and remarkably insightful, Rist’s signature colourful moving image installations invite visitors to walk around and sprawl, interacting with the works shown in unusual settings. As viewers look at these mesmerising installations, they are transported to a joyful dream-like world, with whimsical exterior landscapes and interior mindscapes.