

Wu Jiaru: Apollo Center
WHO
Wu Jiaru
WHAT
The Hong Kong-based artist presents a monumental painting installation and a series of new works. Inspired by Apollo’s mythology, his curses, and his tragic loves, the colourful paintings are made through automatic drawing, consistent with her practice of layering in personal history with narrative. It explores themes of alienation, individuality, the impact of modernisation and the tension between individual and collective experiences in a fragmented society.
WHY
Within the immersive, participatory exhibition, the viewer is invited to cut out and acquire fragments from the large-scale painting, each incision representing a small act of destruction. Allowing a collective and ongoing recontextualisation of the original image, the exhibition is an active collaboration as the audience joins in its creation and transformation