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Everything is Unreal Until It’s Not
DE SARTHE 26/F M Place, 54 Wong Chuk Hang Road, AberdeenWHO Lov-Lov WHAT The exhibition by the New York-based artist (aka Lin Jingjing) debuts a piercing, semi-organic installation as well as a new body of videos and works on canvas. Referencing technological developments, the artist initiates a dialogue of the idyllic vs. the unsettling. The works speculate the authenticity of a virtual mirage, and also…
Late to the Party
DE SARTHE 26/F M Place, 54 Wong Chuk Hang Road, AberdeenWHAT For DE SARTHE’s 7th annual de Sarthe Artist Residency (deSAR), its resident artist, Chan Ka Kiu (b. 1995) has created new artworks using the gallery as her studio. She has transformed the gallery space into a captivating dialogue centred around the enigmatic ‘27 Club’ - a group of influential artists and celebrities who tragically…
Out of the Time
DE SARTHE 26/F M Place, 54 Wong Chuk Hang Road, AberdeenWHAT The Berlin-based artist’s first solo exhibition in Hong Kong explores the theme of weaknesses of human nature and existence, based on the artist’s own personal experiences. In this exhibition, she depicts chaotic images of survivors in ruins with their eyes, hearts, or other body parts hollowed out or mutilated. The imageries allude to the…
Room 1005
DE SARTHE 26/F M Place, 54 Wong Chuk Hang Road, AberdeenWHAT The exhibition is the Beijing-based artist's newest solo show, named after the his studio door number in Beijing. Inspired by the time he spent isolated in Room 1005 during the pandemic, Zhou explores the helpless state he experienced - a time of social suspension, referencing his perception of temporality and reality in the confined…
Elsewhere
DE SARTHE 26/F M Place, 54 Wong Chuk Hang Road, AberdeenWHAT The new solo show by the NY and Beijing-based artist presents the rapid shifts in society and the displacement in our reality in the form of mixed-media works on canvas. She showcases a variety of evocative images such as cityscapes and extra-terrestrial entities to reference the invasion of technology in our everyday lives. The…
House of Fortune
DE SARTHE 26/F M Place, 54 Wong Chuk Hang Road, AberdeenWHAT WE KNOW Originally named Mak Ying Tung, the artist added the ‘2’ to her name in 2018 after visiting a fengshui master in the hopes of gaining fame and fortune by perfecting the number of strokes in her Chinese name. She further shortened her name to Mak2 earlier this year (2021). Her third solo…
READY\SET\FULFILL
DE SARTHE 26/F M Place, 54 Wong Chuk Hang Road, AberdeenWHAT WE KNOW Andrew Luk and Samuel Swope are both Hong Kong-based artists who create multi-media works that defy traditional conventions of art. In particular, Luk examines the relationship between human civilisation, history, and technological advances through time, frequently engaging sculpture, video art and games, as well as installations. On the other hand, Swope is most known for his work in aerial art and aesthetic systems, which merge multiple…
Double Fly Awkward Pay
DE SARTHE 26/F M Place, 54 Wong Chuk Hang Road, AberdeenWHAT WE KNOW Double Fly Art Center was established in 2008. Their team of 9 rode the new pivotal wave of China’s contemporary art and adopted an absurd and comical style. Double Fly creates a multitude of outlandish pieces in a variety of mediums, provoking shock, laughter, and deep thought. Their works comment on contemporary…
