CHAT - Centre for Heritage, Arts and Textile
Current and Past Events
VARIOUS ARTISTS: Factory of Tomorrow
CHAT - Centre for Heritage, Arts and Textile 45 Pak Tin Par Street, Tsuen Wan, New TerritoriesWHO Various artists WHAT From textile works and sculptures to immersive installations and videos, the exhibition brings together creations by 19 artists and collectives of Asian backgrounds, reflecting their takes on textile technology and materials, diversity, climate change and our future. The first part showcases works of contemporary art collected by CHAT over the years…
Everybody Wanna Be Happy
CHAT - Centre for Heritage, Arts and Textile 45 Pak Tin Par Street, Tsuen Wan, New TerritoriesWHAT The solo exhibition of the acclaimed Thai contemporary artist offers a retrospective of his artistic practice spanning two decades. It showcases wall-hangings and sculptural pieces, as well as an ongoing workshop for refugees in Thailand. His works break free from conventional craft and the lineage of Western modernism in textile and fibre art, and…
Spinning East Asia Series II: A Net (Dis)entangled
CHAT - Centre for Heritage, Arts and Textile 45 Pak Tin Par Street, Tsuen Wan, New TerritoriesWHAT The exhibition is the second chapter of the ‘Spinning East Asia Series’, which features sixteen groups of artists based in East Asia, or whose creative research revolves around East Asian topics. The exhibition hones in on the interdependent yet conflicted web of East Asian relations in today’s context. By bringing into discussion how maintaining one’s own…
Yee I-Lann: Until We Hug Again
CHAT - Centre for Heritage, Arts and Textile 45 Pak Tin Par Street, Tsuen Wan, New TerritoriesWHAT WE KNOW An internationally acclaimed contemporary artist from Malaysia, Yee established her artistic career through digitally manipulating images from found photographs and historical archives. Her works respond to the modern history of the Southeast Asia Archipelago and its colonial past and post-colonial present; they are social-economic commentaries that seek to highlight issues such as…
