"Curtain", presented by Para Site and Rockbund Art Museum
Exhibition period: 15 May - 25 July 2021
Venue: Para Site and Soho House Hong Kong
Featured artists:
Chantal Akerman, Xyza Cruz Bacani, Leigh Bowery, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Cao Guimarães, Ho Sin Tung, Hu Yinping, Hu Yun, Derek Jarman, Li Shuang, Minouk Lim, Gustav Metzger, Ocean & Wavz, Jacolby Satterwhite, Daniel Steegmann Mangrané, Tan Jing, Robel Temesgen, Jason Wee, Cici Wu, Wu Jiaru, shaw xu zhifeng, Stella Zhang, Jasphy Zheng, and Zhou Tao
Curators:
Cosmin Costinas, Larys Frogier, Celia Ho, Anqi Li, Billy Tang, and Xu Tiantian
Collaborators:
Biljana Ciric and Mathieu Copeland
Para Site and Rockbund Art Museum present “Curtain” – a continuation of the unique dialogue and partnership between the two institutions, which began in 2019 with An Opera for Animals that premiered at Para Site, with a jointly curated edition travelling to Rockbund Art Museum subsequently.
Presented across two venues in Hong Kong, the exhibition includes existing and newly commissioned works as well as site-specific interventions by 25 artists, offering a multi-layered experience that responds to the fluid concept of ‘curtain’. The exhibition makes artistic and conceptual references to passages, frontiers, separations, connections, occupations, circulations, and localities by drawing upon the mundane materiality of the curtain as a domestic object and its scenographic functions in various cultural contexts, and exploring its qualities of porosity and opacity and its contemporary adaptations in electronic devices. Conceived as a framework to disrupt our usual habits of consuming visual culture, the exhibition also activates the viewer’s senses through acts of crawling into, lifting, peeking through, being guided by smell and sound, or that of reading, writing, and feeling a space.
0-Viewpoint-8-1, 2, 3
Mixed Media
183 x 152 cm x 3
2015
0-Viewpoint-8-13
Mixed Media
109 x 84 cm
2016
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https://www.para-site.art/exhibitions/curtain/
