”間“ (gaan1/ gaan4) signifies finity.
Finite life shapes the human experience.
Finite light and darkness shape time.
Finite nearness and distance shape space.
Disability exists within these boundaries—as the limits of the body.
Precisely through these limits shall meaning emerge within finity. 

Artists-in-Residence
─ Jade Hui
─ Daphanie Wong
─ Sandra Wong

23 January, 7:30pm: Closing & Live Performance By Daphanie Wong ”The Healing Thread“

Venue address: 4/F Eaton HK, 380 Nathan Road, Jordan

Eaton HK and TA Magazine are proud to present a groundbreaking fashion show celebrating non-binary identity and expression. This event will also mark the launch of TA, a community zine that focuses on contemporary LGBTQIA+ and non-binary issues.

Complementing the fashion show, “Things We Never Did”, an exhibition by acclaimed Hong Kong photographer Mark Chung, curated by Kary Kwok, will showcase powerful photographic documentation of the event. The exhibition will also feature select garments and props directly from the fashion show, providing attendees with an immersive, behind-the-scenes experience.

Opening Reception: 6PM 29 August

Venue address: Tomorrow Maybe, 4/F, Eaton HK

Queer and disabled individuals often find themselves born into families where they are the only ones with their particular identity or condition. These differences can lead to a divergence in self-understanding and worldview, creating emotional distance between them and their parents and siblings. The "Family Portrait" exhibition seeks to illuminate the experiences and challenges faced by queer and disabled families in Hong Kong, the United States, and France, within the context of their biological families.

The artworks in this exhibition will focus on the personal stories and family histories of queer and disabled individuals, expressed through paintings, photographs, and videos. These works serve as vital documentation of the most vulnerable memories and profound emotions that accompany the lives of queer and disabled individuals, capturing the depths and specificities of joy and pain within these marginalized families.  

Gallery address: Tomorrow Maybe, 4/F Eaton HK, 380 Nathan Rd, Jordan

"After Human: Marks of the Beasts" explores storytelling as a tool for marking the significant impact of humans on animals. It sheds light on the ideas and figures of animals as an integral part of East Asian cultures, where the ideologies and cosmologies behind them often remain hidden. The exhibition features video, installation, performance, and text-based artworks by local and international artists, including Revital Cohen and Tuur Van Balen (UK/BE), Sungsil Ryu (KR), Zoe Marden (UK/HK), Future Host (Tingying Ma and Kang Kang) (US/CN), Joy Li (CN/US), and Mui Hoi Ying (HK). These artworks speculate on animals as mythical beings, forms of capital, and objects of aesthetic interest, blending elements of ethnography and fiction. Taking all the different narratives on animals built into the works as a starting point, this exhibition attempts to world a human-animal world that is not from the viewpoint of utilitarian individualism - human-centric, profit-maximizing, desire-driven - and instead envisions humans becoming a collective with other species through symbiosis, kinship, or even shapeshifting. The Earth, it seems, will be for the survival of all species.

Venue address: 4/F Eaton HK, 380 Nathan Road, Jordan

‘Home (Away From Home)’ offers an insight into the ways in which queer relationships provide a sense of safety, a sense of belonging, and a sense of home.

Comprised of both still and moving imagery, this exhibition tells stories of the sensual and sensuous nature of queer love and queer life, from wavy, hazy disco-dance-floors to soft, gentle embraces of lovers and friends holding hands and holding space for one another. Viewers can experience life in Naarm (Melbourne) through the eyes of the artist and consider how we value intimacy in our everyday lives.

Mon to Sun 11:00 – 21:00

Venue address: 4/F Eaton HK, 380 Nathan Road, Jordan

Initiated in 2021 as an exhibition sidebar of ‘Jumping Frames’, ’Expanded Space’ is a proposition to explore new possibilities of presenting movement/images beyond traditional screen-based cinematic formats. Aiming to instigate a multi-layer dialogue between different artistic practices and domains under the auspice of an interdisciplinary film festival, ‘Expanded Space’ reflects the festival commitment to probe at the intersections between performance and the moving image, cine-choreographies, and the body.

Over the years, ’Expanded Space’ has hosted a diverse collection of sound, object and media installation works that transmitted and transmuted filmic gestures and narratives into the spatially demanding gallery presentation. Extending its inquiry transversally, it has also included sculptural and kinetic installation works that questioned what constitutes the performative impulse and bridging the divide between movement- and image-making.

For ‘Expanded Space 2023’: (RE)PLAY, the exhibition will examine the archival strategies, considerations, and formats of two seminal artists working across the valencies of performance-making: Melati Suryodarmo, an Indonesian performance artist known for her durational and physically demanding performances; and Xavier Le Roy, a choreographer and dancer often associated with the development of the notion of expanded choreography that started in Europe at the end of the 90’s.

Each artist will present a lecture performance, UNPACKED No. 1: Love (2023) by Suryodarmo and Product of Other Circumstances (2009) by Le Roy, – that draws on the ‘Jumping Frames 2023’ themes of re-enactment and archival (re)construction. Emphasising their methodologies in archiving works, the audience is invited to re-imagine scenes and essences of their practice through objects, videos and still images.

Please visit website for the full programme.

Gallery address: 4/F Eaton Hk, 380 Nathan Road, Jordan

A rhetorical delusion or heartfelt self-affirmation, “Welcome >_< Take a Seat Wherever (cringevibing on a downward spiral)” explores the emotive language of Gen Z as well as implications of being terminally online in a confusing, almost pathologized, schizophrenic state. 

Taking humour as a point of departure, the exhibition looks into the why’s and how’s of memetic irony: why do these devices share an affinity among Gen Z, and how are these memes—in Dawkins’ terms and in a contemporary vernacular—disseminated? In the era where ironic expression is nearly indistinguishable from sincere belief, meme makers conflate ‘based’ with ‘cringe’, readers take comedic scripts as half-truths. The virtual versus actual has become obsolete. So have art and memes that slowly morph into one another.

Participating Artists:  Miri, Jenn, Noura Tafeche, Janice Kei, Ringo Lo, Brandon Brandy, Rachel Jackson, E8mkboy, Cas Wong

Curated by: 策展人 Angela Liu 廖翊名, Institution of Niche. Co-supported by HART and Tomorrow Maybe, Eaton HK.

Gallery Address: 4/F Eaton HK, 380 Nathan Road, Jordan

During the summer drought of 1963, two hundred village women in Sheung Shui who set up an altar on the top of Wa Shan by Ng Tung River, praying for rain. They laid bamboo, flowers and fruits, fresh water, animal sacrifice beside the rain prayer rock on the mountain top, and performed a set of ancient rituals. It is said that not long after the ritual was performed rain fell from the sky.  

Media artist Law Yuk Mui will create video and sound installations based on her field study and archival research of the rainmaking ritual, she will perform and re-enact the ritual with sound artist Lam Yip in a format of live cinema in the opening.

Presented by Eaton HK

Gallery address: 4/F Eaton HK, 380 Nathan Road, Jordan

New Pessimism: Tropical frontier brings together a selection of works by Natasha Tontey and Riar Rizaldi, both artists from Indonesia. Natasha Tontey is a multidisciplinary artist and designer who has recently been listed as a ‘Future Great 2023’ by ArtReview. Her works have been shown in transmediale (Berlin), Auto Italia (London), Leeum Museum of Art (Seoul) and so forth, and are now showing at the Singapore Biennale 2022. Riar Rizaldi is an award winning artist and filmmaker. His works have been shown at various international film festivals including Locarno, IFFR, Viennale and so forth, as well as at the Centre Pompidou Paris, Istanbul Biennial and Venice Architecture Biennale.

For the last 10 years, Natasha Tontey and Riar Rizaldi have explored and investigated the notion of horror, terror, and bad taste in popular culture through a series of moving image practices. Their interest in observing and dissecting social, technological, and ecological issues is rooted in the landscape and social dynamic of Indonesia. Growing up consuming campy horror cinema in the 80s and 90s, science-fiction pulp literature, ghost stories, the underground scene, Indonesian soap operas, and engaging with social changemakings and indigenous movements, Natasha and Riar transform the codes of b-grade media and popular culture to generate fiction and narrative where ecological and social issues are dissected in an abstract and sometimes bad taste way. Recently, they label their work as a ‘new style of pessimism.’ A term they use to describe their artistic practice and pessimism towards the social and ecological situation in Indonesia—and also the world. 

For the tours and performance information check the website.

Venue address: 4/F Tomorrow Maybe + Music Room, 380 Nathan Road, Jordan

“Thinking takes place in the relationship of territory and the earth.” The globe is now covered with grids and interpreted according to multiple regimes. Can we revisit how human beings come to understand and experience a new piece of land by means of imagining a landing on another planet? 

Based on the contents of SAMPLE’s ISSUE 27 “E pur si muove” and ISSUE 28 “Terra Forma”, we commissioned the artists Lazarus Chan Long Fung, Winnie Yan Wai Yin, Tang Kwong San, and Wong Winsome Dumalagan in this project to create new artworks under the theme of GROUNDING. We visited Hong Kong’s Port Island with a geologist during the research phase. Picking up sands and stones on the uninhabited island, we observed deep time through the warping and cracking of rock strata to imagine the generation and transformation of the land. 

Participating artists: Lazarus Chan Long Fung, Tang Kwong San, Winnie Yan Wai Yin, Wong Winsome Dumalagan

Check the whole programme at the website.

Gallery address: 4/F Eaton Hk, 380 Nathan Road, Jordan

The title of the 'Jumping Frames' Expanded Space 2022, Body-dis-ordered is a tangent coined out from the festival main theme this year: Body Non Body. The exhibition explores the dysfunction of both human body and the mechanical / algorithmic system, and how they collide with each other in the language of video, installation and performance.

In a collective contemplation to re-organize embodied memories and body order, the inherited system and independence between bodies, subjectivities, politics, place, and movement, what emerges through the works in this collection proposes a certain engagement to access possible unfamiliar flow in which our body's own reaction and participation gives shape to the experience. 

Co-presenter: City Contemporary Dance Company & Eaton HK
Participating artists: Ray LC (Hong Kong), Joey Holder (UK), Jun Bokyung (Korea), Jun Hyejoo (Korea), Tsui Hou-lam (Hong Kong), Tung Wing-hong (Hong Kong), Omsk Social Club (Germany)

Venue address: 4/F Eaton HK, 380 Nathan Road, Jordan

From invisible presence, glowing lights, fading shadows, translucent shapes, to lifelike forms, the specter manifests itself as various existences. Specters may come from a belief in animism, a hallucination of mind, a speculation of otherworlds, an inhabitation of past lives, or even a superimposition through technology. Whether falsified or not, the specter is one of the oldest collective experiences throughout human history. The specter paves the way for fictionalized yet realistic imaginations of the unknown.    

Luke Casey’s solo exhibition, SPECTERS depicts a hallucinative, uncanny journey traversing the universes of nature, spirituality, and technology through photography and video artworks. The audience is invited to float in and out of worlds built by Casey, immerse themselves in the frontier of the imaginary, the reality and its hybrid, constantly shifting in between.

(Exhibition opens on 20.05.2022 6pm, the artist will be present.)    

Venue address: 4/F Eaton Hk, 380 Nathan Road, Jordan

The younger generation are natives of the virtual world, a world that is overloaded with infinitely deep rabbit holes of information and content. They were and are raised by the Internet: schooled by search engines, communicated with memes, lived on social media. The physical world, it seems, is almost irrelevant.Welcome to the anti-generation, a generation against being represented, a generation that needs no agent and no spokesperson, a generation that is directly activating cultural influence and transformation — from sharing personal experiences to social advocacy — through social media.

Participating Artists 參展藝術家: Jessica Chan 陳煒彤, Ringo Lo Wing Tao + Tam Man Ching Michelle 盧永滔 + 譚敏晴, Eric Pang 彭均肇, Sam Siu 蕭淼森, Clara Wong 黃慧瑩, Sin Wong 汪倩

Venue address: Tomorrow Maybe, 4/F, Eaton HK, 380 Nathan Road, Jordan

Inhale… 

With every inhale and exhale we are in an expanding and contracting relationship with our planet. This exhibition is about humans, trees, and the breath that connects us. 

With restrictions around our daily movement and social interaction over the last year and a half, locally, a vital consolation was our ability to venture into Hong Kong’s country parks and nature reserves. 

This exhibition raises and explores the topic and through the work of 11 artists/ collectives contemplates the human relationship to what we consider “our natural environment”. 

We are grateful to Sebi Medina-Tayac, Pablo Albarenga, Maria Chan, Amanda Yik, Zheng Bo, Kaisan, Gabriel Chung, and all the artists for the wisdom that helped guide this initiative. 

…Exhale

Venue address: LG/F FOODHALL, G/F Lobby & 4/F Tomorrow Maybe, 380 Nathan Road, Jordan

We evaluate our world based on results, but we often fail to see the movements comprising each action that create these results. Movements are transitory and ephemeral, lost in time and always progressing. The movement never really ends. This new series of work entitled Manifest Ephemeral by Ophelia Jacarini captures movements; suspending choreography and dance into sculptural installation and photography.

Ophelia’s work brings to light the female experience. She was awarded the Eaton Award at the Human Rights Arts Prize in 2018 for her series “Blooming” where the female figure is woven by thread, with each stitch strengthening the whole. The thread entwined together brings the female body to life, radiating outwards, authentic and open. While using seemingly delicate material, Ophelia’s work is a representation of the resilience that is the female body. Manifest Ephemeral is an exhibition of her process driven research which started during her residency at Eaton DC in 2018.

"This is my last exhibition before I leave Hong Kong to study in the UK. Therefore, I selected a variety of works to make a summary. Some are more life-oriented and some are more abstract. I always believe that the works reflect what I usually think, see, what kind of person I am, and this exhibition describes me from the shallower to the deeper, from life to personal thoughts to personal feelings." 
-- Lean 

The artist will be present on 12 September from 5-8pm. 

Venue address: 4/F Eaton HK, 380 Nathan Road, Jordan