Para Site
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TREVOR YEUNG: Soft breath
Para Site 22/F Wing Wah Industrial Building, 677 King's Road, North Point & Quarry BayWHO Trevor Yeung WHAT The Hong Kong artist’s solo exhibition delves into queer experiences shaping multi-species entanglements. The primary medium in the gallery includes soap, oak bark powder, mosses, essential oils, and glitters, culminating in an ambitious, large-scale replica of the 'fuck tree'. In Yeung’s carefully staged installations, the lives of plants are a medium…
AKI SASAMOTO: Sounding Lines
Para Site 22/F Wing Wah Industrial Building, 677 King's Road, North Point & Quarry BayWHO Aki Sasamoto WHO Situated between sculpture and performance, the New York-based artist’s solo exhibition features a newly commissioned installation and performance in conversation with a recent moving-image work: the exhibition's title sets the stage for exploration. Expanding on this concept, it explores the boundaries and interrelations among people and their physical surroundings, focusing on…
Moss Wonders
Para Site 22/F Wing Wah Industrial Building, 677 King's Road, North Point & Quarry BayWHO Chan Ting WHAT In this solo exhibition that is the result of a 3-month residency, the Hong Kong artist (b.1993) showcases their mixed media, image, sound, and installation works that explore the relationships among people, cities, and nature. The artist has collected a range of eclectic objects from Quarry Bay, the neighbourhood of Para…
Offerings for Escalante
Para Site 22/F Wing Wah Industrial Building, 677 King's Road, North Point & Quarry BayWHAT Curated by Celia Ho, this is the first major institutional solo exhibition of the artist duo in Asia. The exhibition features all-new commissions including an hour-long experimental documentary film, large-scale drawings on handmade paper, a site-specific installation, and a 16mm stop motion animated film. The exhibition is accompanied by public programmes including lectures, discussion…
signals…here and there
Para Site 22/F Wing Wah Industrial Building, 677 King's Road, North Point & Quarry BayWHAT The exhibition is the third and final chapter in the gallery’s exhibition series, ‘signals…瞬息’. It is the culmination of the three part series that unfolded over six months and featured 25 artists and collectives in a dialogue with an experimental display structure. This final chapter explores both historical and contemporary migratory movements in the…
Strange Strangers
Para Site 22/F Wing Wah Industrial Building, 677 King's Road, North Point & Quarry BayWHAT Taking place at the non-profit’s new 10th floor annex, the exhibition features works by the New York-based Chinese artist (Cao) and the Hong Kong artist (Chan). While Cao’s works consist of stoneware, glass, and resin, Chan creates sculptures that transform urban debris, ancient artefacts, as well as natural and industrial materials. Though the artists…
signals…folds and splits
Para Site 22/F Wing Wah Industrial Building, 677 King's Road, North Point & Quarry BayWHAT The exhibition is the second chapter in the gallery’s exhibition series, ‘signals…瞬息’. Presenting score-based interventions and time-based mediums, it explores the ways that artists challenge the norms of time in an unstable climate. This second chapter considers the concept of time as a series of folds and spits. The folds imply a malleable connection…
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Para Site 22/F Wing Wah Industrial Building, 677 King's Road, North Point & Quarry BayWHAT The Hong Kong artist (b. 1987) has cultivated an artistic practice galvanised by his keen, unperturbed sense of observation. His work examines everyday objects and their inherent forms, while exposing varying nuances in the relationship between the object and the context where it is found. In January 2023, Para Site invited the artist to…
signals…storms and patterns
Para Site 22/F Wing Wah Industrial Building, 677 King's Road, North Point & Quarry BayWHAT This exhibition is the first to mark a new chapter in Para Site’s endeavours, as they venture into a new direction. Featuring a series of commissions and existing works along with experimental display structures, the title refers to the idea that all the works in the exhibition are modes of kinetic art that create…
Liquid Ground
Para Site 22/F Wing Wah Industrial Building, 677 King's Road, North Point & Quarry BayWHAT WE KNOW Chosen from Para Site’s 6th international open call for exhibition proposals from emerging curators, the present show is a collaboration between Para Site and China-based UCCA Center for Contemporary Art. The exhibition explores the relationship between ecology, geology, modernism, and land reclamation, examining the changes and developments to natural landscapes. WHY WE…
