“If you frequent one particular pool as I do, you’ll start to notice the same people there again and again. We don’t know anything about each other, but there’s an…
“Patrick Sun grew up in Hong Kong at a time when being gay was viewed as a source of familial shame. On coming out to his mother, the real estate…
“It has this idea of a work also being half. Half out, half on the margins, but halfway in. And, actually, that kind of mediating position of curating is one…
“I’m incorporating certain gestures, certain kinds of bodies, citations from queer politics and art, figures from the past and present, and bringing that into a shared frame, a roadmap for…
“Being aware of the photographic traditions of postmodern photography and identity art, I want to explore the idea of sentimentality, the premise of highly compressed emotion. They are deliberately over…
“We are tired of portrayals of our community by mainstream society that are homonormalised, overly positive or pitiful. We just have to be honest and blunt, whether the truth is…
“In my moving image practice, I explore the politics of reconstructing a moment of personal trauma and shame. My performance work investigates the performing body and its relationship to the…
by Enid Tsui, 30 December 2022 The exhibition was meant to coincide with Hong Kong’s hosting of the Gay Games sports and cultural event, but despite this being delayed it…
“Intimacy is important in my artworks. And not only intimacy between the audience and the artworks, but also between myself and the material. Some artists spend 15 years studying colour.…
Samson Young is an artist who can concentrate on only one thing under the scene of many different events happening. “So You Are Old by the Time You Reach the Island” presented…
