Whenever the candle flame flickers, a thousand thoughts cross his mind. He‘s never had any memorable birthdays—except vague recollections of past celebrations. That is why he never placed much importance on having cake on his birthday. Nevertheless, the sight of cakes brings him joy, as though cakes epitomises the best of both nature and civilisation. Speaking of celebrations, wine is indispensable. Although wine often connotes happiness, it sometimes evokes a sense of chaotic and vulgar indulgence. Given its association with emotions, aesthetics, and sensory pleasure, wine is naturally a common motif in art and mythology. The representations of cake and wine before you not only carry mythical elements but also serve as a spiritual feast for contemplation.

Over the past five years, Avery Lau Hong Lam has created many prints of cakes and wine. Sweet Fire and Deadly Nectar showcases the artist’s profound insights into secret, destiny, choice, and love. Like Orpheus in Greek mythology, Avery couldn’t help but look back repeatedly, making sure the sweet fire would not go out. To document this journey, he presents to you a book and its corresponding exhibition, so he can hide his secrets, share his thoughts, and extend his narratives in the most inconspicuous way.

Venue address: 6/F, Foo Tak Building, 365-367 Hennessy Rd, Wan Chai

How to intervene due to uncertainty, using misplacement as a point of entry?

When the boundaries between normal and abnormal become blurred, the uncertainty and fluctuation of relationships and positions, the alternation of misplacement, also brings about new choices/perspectives.

This project invites four groups of artists to observe and explore misplacement through interventions in the changing present. From the perspectives of generational shifts, evolving roles, creative media, and how individuals relate to their emotions, history, and power dynamics, the artists understand and interpret misplacement in four non-mainstream independent spaces and bookstores.

Throughout this process of deconstruction and reconstruction, they experience ambiguity, concealment, misplacement, distortion, and opposing positions. By establishing new relationships and divergences, they seek to understand the essence of misplacement and establish new relationships with themselves.

Chan Sai Lok X Lut Ming
Sharon Lee X The Memory Machine
Reds Cheung & Amie Chan X Cassandra Lau
Elaine Wong X Humchuk

Opening Gathering
3.2.2024
15:30 -17:30 Mist Gallery
18:00 - 20:00 Artspace 1999 + ACO
18:00 - 20:00 POINTSMAN
**You can arrive at Mist by 15:30, and there’s a shuttle service to Wan Chai’s Fu Tak Building and Sai Ying Pun at 17:45.

Venue: Unit B16, 6/F, Landmark South, 39 Yip Kan Street, Wong Chuk Hang

The artist Manny Yip has been exploring mundane and ordinary things, discovering sensory experiences and meanings. Her new solo exhibition, "Children on a Conveyor," aims to arouse the audience's reflection on the loneliness and ambiguity generated from the daily queuing experience, and compare the relationship between individual growth and social construction.

In this showcase, Yip depicts the "queue" formed by the interaction between individuals and society as a kind of order. In the past few years, she has observed the growth of children and the phenomenon of queuing during the epidemic. She reflects the established social order and explores themes such as individual maturation and social landscape through her new paintings and installations.

Yip scrutinises and questions the habitual queuing behavior of Hong Kong people and hopes to gain insight into the challenges and difficulties faced in the growth process. It will be an in-depth reflection on the most ordinary things in life, inviting the audience to review their connections with the society around them.

Gallery address: 6/F, Foo Tak Building, 365 Hennessy Road, Wanchai

The integration and homogenisation of space have eradicated diversity between territories; information overload and interchange of mirror images have neutralised interpersonal individuality. This exhibition shall apply and expand upon this field of thinking, and could also be seen as a resistance towards homogenisation.

A boundless space is dead and desensitising. The artist trains her perception within the constant swing of the pendulum of scope, from dissolution to reconstitution, and from acceptance to rejection. The conflicts and contradiction of reality, in contrast to the completion, smoothness and beauty of the ordinary, the discrepancies and incompletion between the two, are often exactly where pathways to elsewhere lie. The thresholds and fences created by the boundaries of a work of art, is an occupation and partition of scope. Yet, at the same time they are also the paths and interfaces to imagining others.
Artist sharing session: 16th March,2023 (Thursday) 7:00-8:00 p.m

Gallery address: 6/F, Foo Tak Building, 365 Hennessy Road, Wanchai

It is about the hot weather. A series of drawings and collages are composed to create the moving image featuring everyday life and Hong Kong movies.

According to Hong Kong Observatory, July 2022 was the hottest month in Hong Kong since records began in 1884. There were 10 days with daily maximum temperatures equal to or higher than 35.0 degrees, the highest number in a month on record and also breaking the record for a year. With total of 25 hot nights and 21 very hot days, July 2022 was the month with the highest number of hot nights and very hot days in a month on record. Under the influence of the subtropical ridge, the subsiding air blocked the formation of clouds. With plenty of sunshine and free of clouds, the temperature rose.

Long hours of exposure to brilliant sunshine may cause dizziness, headache, nausea, and even unconsciousness.

Take rest and drink plenty of water.

Venue address: 6/F Foo Tak Building, 365 Hennessy Road, Wanchai

Every moment turns momental under the torrent of images and time. They keep flipping through every moment we see, not allowing either pick, collect nor remember. Yet, sometimes people remain hovering among some specific scenes in mind. But why? Are those scenes so memorable or so reluctant to forget?

Painting visually records the intention as still pieces, but how could it freeze the dynamic and recollect the momental passion in the flow of time?

“Flow and Hover” is a solo exhibition by Hector Chan, with paintings taking different scenes from movies and daily life as subjects. Chan’s practice mainly focus on exploring how painting could represent dynamic, and the pieces in this exhibition apply the way of painting he has being explored since 2018.

Dynamic appears not only in visual movement, but also in mental leap of association. Dynamic gesture smoothens and extends seeing, it strikes into the eyes and summons the torrent of images in mind instantly, which brings an image more than an image. Sometimes it penetrates the time, summoning next moment of the movement; and sometimes it penetrates the memory, connecting similar scenes together. Seeing triggers association, which leaps across fragmentary recollection of images in our mind. Such dynamic is an extension of the desire of seeing,

Gallery address: 6/F Foo Tak Building, 365 Hennessy Road, Wanchai

Our relationship with the material “cement” is seemingly detached yet bonded—we pace on it every day, even living in it.

Lee sees cement as a medium that triggers her daily associations to explore the possibility of material interpretation and sculptural concepts. The process of reshaping cement provokes her into a deeper state of contemplation and transforms her abstract feelings, extending the spiritual state beyond its physical form. Simultaneously, she correlates cement as a formless compound—where water is its medium and earth is its base. The water lifts and activates the stilled soil, mingles and converges it into a solid entity, allowing it to withstand and reverse the current. Cement has a tendency to morph into countless metaphors which are derived from one single substance.

In the exhibition, Lee honestly articulates the complexity in the intertwined emotion she encountered, delivered with a sense of obscurity yet rationally and concealed. She believed the artwork is merely a representation without meaning, and all connotation is a manifestation of the will and interpretation.

*artist presents on every Saturday

Venue address: 6/F, Foo Tak Building, 365 Hennessy Road, Wan Chai

This exhibition borrows allusions from ancient paintings and substitutes them into the context of today's society to explore the feelings of the place through paintings. Artists work at home for a long time due to the epidemic. Due to the boredom, in addition to being uncertain about their future, artist also developed the technique of drawing with highlighters and used them as the creative medium of the exhibition. The artist uses fluorescent pens, commonly used stationery in Hong Kong, and the arranges the exhibition space, resulting in the overlapping of different images in the painting, allowing the artist's memory to be integrated into the record of the place. "The green hills do not change the long flow of water." Even though the place is always there, but the personnel may change

(sorry for any mistakes — this was translated with Google translate because only Cantonese press release was available at a time /gg/)

Gallery address: ACO Art Space, 6th Floor, Fu Tak Building, Wan Chai

Six of Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) graduates/year 3 students (Major in Painting/ Sculpture) will be taking part in the exhibition “Being in __Being out__” at ACO Art Space. Through the aspects of living, family, community, society, spirituality, etc., the artists will illustrate their personal experiences and sense of being in their works. Join the exhibition and find out their views of “In” and “Out”!

Participating Artists: CHAN King Long Ken, CHOW Hoi Lan Helen, LO Pui Man Polly, NG Yan Chit Michael, YUEN Wing Yan, WONG Hoi Ching Hebe⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

Venue address: ACO Art Space, 6/F Foo Tak Building

Living in the same industrial building, we share a quilt full of colours.
Old buildings around us have disappeared, then new ones rose out of the ground; some restaurants have reopened under new names, while their former staff are now working in other restaurants with new uniforms. Some people have left this neighbourhood, but not forever– perhaps we will meet again just around a different corner. We all have problems in life one after another as if the sky keeps falling. Let’s just play it by ear, and go on living life in our own ways, till the day our paths cross again. When you find it too exhausting, just cover yourself with a quilt –take a break–and seek comfort together before we overcome new challenges ahead of us.

Featuring mostly prints and paintings, “Good Night, Sleep Tight: Solo Exhibition by Cho Wing-ki” presents the artist’s intimate observation of her familiar surroundings. By creating vivid pictures of the people she has been living with–those who work diligently in silence–she hopes to learn more about their stories and pay tribute to them.

Venue address: 6/F, Foo Tak Building, 365-367 Hennessy Road, Wanchai

Leung Ka Man focuses on paintings, videos and mixed media in her practice. The works are juxtapositions of poeticized words, fabricated scenarios and daily images, forming various narratives and imagery. Leung probes in her hetero-normal ambiguity and emotions.

Leung lives and works in Hong Kong, received a BA (Fine Arts) in 2017 from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. In 2018, Leung has founded Epical Chamber, the artist collective brings daily stories into a form of epic, to archive the scattered insignificance.

Gallery address: 6/F 365, Foo Tak Building, 365-367 Hennessy Road, Wan Chai

An exhibition by Cheng Hung, which explores the sense of alienation in the city and how the development of the city affects the relationship between humans and nature. Responding to the last solo exhibition "the Sunset lasts Forever", the artist carries on the conversation with herself. New paintings and animations will be on display during the exhibition.

Venue address: 6/F 365, Foo Tak Building, 365-367 Hennessy Road, Wan Chai

Reflecting on what happened in 2020, we also need to keep an eye on what will happen in the years to come. After all, the future can only be illuminated by the past. ‘After_’ by Design Trust Seed Grant recipient Nicole Andrianjaka de Surville and her team at Zolima CityMag brings together young writers, videographers and photographers to reflect on how Covid-19 has changed Hong Kong and its society. What are the challenges posed by the pandemic? And what are the design opportunities to rethink society in the new era that comes after? Join us this Friday 22 January 2021 to explore these questions through a collection of artwork, poems and stories created by 11 participants who have been working closely with mentors including poet-scholars Tammy Ho Lai-ming and Jason Polley, Videotage co-founder Ellen Pau, photojournalist May James, and Zolima CityMag managing editor Christopher DeWolf.

Venue address: ACO, 6/F, Foo Tak Building, 365-367 Hennessy Road, Wan Chai

Blindspot Gallery is pleased to present Daily Practice, a solo exhibition by Yeung Tong Lung, in collaboration with Art & Culture Outreach. This major solo exhibition features the artist’s most recent works executed in 2019-2020, in addition to selected works from 2015 to 2018. Daily Practice proposes an expansive reading of Yeung’s paintings, a practice that spans four decades and myriad styles, but consistently based on an intimate observation of people, nature and things with whom the artist shares his existence. Painting for Yeung is a daily practice — a patient practice for internal and external growth, and an imaginative practice for representing the richness of interior worlds beyond surfaces and despite circumstances.

Gallery address: 15/F, Po Chai Industrial Building, Wong Chuk Hang

Light-Installation Testing Ground for a Being
Entering the ongoing transfiguring space,
A being,
Dominating-subordinating-reflecting-diffracting-sublimating-haunting-turning-returning-re-turning,
Or the exit to re-entering?
How are you going to perform this test in solitude?

Participants will receive an email confirmation. $50 will be collected from each participant as a deposit and will be returned after the session. Time: 1 session every hour; 30 minutes per session. Please refer to the online form for more details.

Concept and the Making: Amy Chan

Dramaturg: Natalie Cheung

Key Visual: yayyeh.yayyeh

Producer: Jamie Wu

Co-production: Treehole and Drama Collaboratory

Venue address: ACO 6/F Gallery, Foo Tak Building, Wa Chai