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Outworn
Flowers Gallery 49 Tung Street Sheung Wan, Hong KongWHAT The Thai artist is one of Southeast Asia’s leading contemporary artists working primarily in the textile medium, and his latest exhibition is a presentation of a series of five tapestried installations, each assembled by stitching uniforms gathered from workers in the service industry in Thailand. Uniforms have consistently played a significant role in the…
Celestial
Flowers Gallery 49 Tung Street Sheung Wan, Hong KongWHAT Three photographic series are presented in the South Korean artist’s new solo show at the gallery. ‘Stargazing,’ ‘On the Clouds’, and ‘Celestial’ have the sky as the artist’s philosophical canvas. In these photographs from the late 1990s to the present, the artist reflects on the human condition. Particularly noteworthy is the ‘Stargazing’ series (early…
Inquiry: In Search of Home
Flowers Gallery 49 Tung Street Sheung Wan, Hong KongWHAT The group exhibition explores the concept of ‘home’ through imagination and inquiry, during and post-pandemic. Showcasing works by artists from diverse backgrounds, the meaning of home is explored through the perspectives of landscape, space, and diaspora. These works highlight the complexities around the concept of home, as well as the contemporary power structures that…
Mirror
Flowers Gallery 49 Tung Street Sheung Wan, Hong KongWHAT The Japanese artist’s first exhibition in Hong Kong is a new series of intertextually-linked photographs and paintings, which explores the changing nature of family relationships, especially the complexities of motherhood and daughterhood, while questioning the meaning of face-to-face meeting in contemporary society. The title implies that parents expect their children to mimic their behaviour,…
African Studies
Flowers Gallery 49 Tung Street Sheung Wan, Hong KongWHAT The renowned Canadian landscape photographer’s work produced across the African continent from 2015 to 2019 is presented in Hong Kong for the first time. Photographed predominantly from aerial viewpoints, Burtynsky’s works often have a flattened frontal aspect, transforming the image into graduating colour fields or vigorous grid-like compositions, reminiscent of Modernist abstraction. Presented at…
Lacrimae Rerum
Flowers Gallery 49 Tung Street Sheung Wan, Hong KongWHAT This exhibition marks the Scottish artist’s first solo show in Asia, and it depicts a number of apocalyptic paintings. The name of the exhibition comes from the Latin phrase from Book 1 of Virgil’s 'Aeneid', and this translates to 'the tears of things', referring to themes of crisis, violence, technology and more on the…
To the Naiad’s House
Flowers Gallery 49 Tung Street Sheung Wan, Hong KongWHAT The title of the exhibition is not only a place featured in the mid-18th century Chinese novel 'Dream of the Red Chamber' by Cao Xueqin, but also the name of a room in the restaurant and entertainment venue owned by the mother of Chinese artist, Wu Jiaru, who spent most of her childhood there.…
Silberbluen
Flowers Gallery 49 Tung Street Sheung Wan, Hong KongWHAT The artist’s first exhibition in Hong Kong is characterised by the blurred lines between landscapes and memories. He explores both photography and painting to understand their difference between what exists and what we remember about the existence. The artist takes inspiration from history and explores new photographic techniques using historical materials, such as silver-coated…
Aida Tomescu: Into a carpet made of water
Flowers Gallery 49 Tung Street Sheung Wan, Hong KongWHAT WE KNOW A leading contemporary artist from Australia, Aida Tomescu built her artistic career of distinctive and powerful paintings through the processes of layering and erasure. With an in-depth knowledge and intimate study in art history, she appropriates the structure and content of Pre, Early and Renaissance Italian painters – in particular, Giotto, Fra Angelico, Piero della Francesca as well as Titian. WHY WE LOVE…
