gdm Hong Kong is pleased to present “Kongkee: Future Jātaka”, the artist’s debut exhibition at the gallery, featuring Kongkee’s new bodies of work, including LED animations, lenticular lightbox, neon installation, mixed-media paintings, and a collaborative work with artist Law Man Lok. Through a rich tapestry of mediums, Kongkee opens up a dialogue set in an imagined future where artificial intelligence, spirituality, and humanity collide, inviting the audience to contemplate how enlightenment and humanity manifest amidst the ever-changing digital era.
Inspired by the Jātaka Tales of the Buddha’s past lives, Kongkee envisions a future where religious and spiritual figures are reincarnated in a technologically advanced future filled with flickering screens and winding cables. In this world, spiritual figures take on new incarnations—a buddha observes the world through the lens of a video recorder, a binge-watching buddha is engrossed in consuming digital content, a mechanized Virgin Mary carries a robotic child in her womb.
The artist poses thought-provoking questions—What if religious figures were reborn in the future? How would they make sense of our world? How would they attain enlightenment? How might they guide humanity?
Opening Reception
30 MAY 2025 (FRIDAY) 5-7 PM
1/F, 11 DUDDELL ST, CENTRAL, HONG KONG
