Works by Gordon Cheung and Liu Sheng to be exhibited in "Stay Connected: Supplying the Globe" at Tai Kwun.
"Stay Connected: Supplying the Globe"
Exhibition Period: 28 February - 31 May 2026
Venue: Tai Kwun
gdm is thrilled to announce artists Gordon Cheung and Liu Sheng's participating in the second chapter of "Stay Connected: Art and China Since 2008" at Tai Kwun. More than 70 artworks from over 40 participating artists re-examine China’s role as the world’s centre for the production and logistics that sustain modern life. They give insights into the individual stories, family histories, and lesser-seen places impacted by globalisation and by China’s unprecedented economic growth in recent decades.
The artworks in "Supplying the Globe" are presented in four thematic sections that highlight subjects including ecological footprints, depictions of labour (including artistic work), networks of exchange, and the global realignments brought by the transnational flows of people, materials, and ideas.
Throughout the exhibition period, Tai Kwun Contemporary will hold cross-disciplinary activities, including a symposium, curatorial talks, and the launch of a companion publication produced in collaboration with Asia Art Archive.
Text courtesy of Tai Kwun.
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Gordon Cheung's practice seamlessly blends physical and digital media and techniques across painting, collage, sculpture, and moving image. Operating in the intersection of virtual and actual realities, Cheung reflects on how these worlds converge to influence our perceptions, asking what it means to be human in civilizations with histories written by victors. Circumnavigating the historical and geographical passage from the Dutch Golden Age to the rise of China as a 21st Century superpower, Cheung critiques the underlying mechanisms of global capitalism, and its impact on our perception of identity, territory, and sense of belonging. These narratives are refracted through the prisms of culture, mythology, religion, and politics into dreamlike spaces of urban surreal worlds that are rooted in the artist’s ‘in-between’ diasporic identity.
Liu Sheng grew up in a rural farming village in Suixi County in Zhanjiang, an area stricken by poverty located in the southwest of Guangdong province in China. Having experienced China’s industrial revolution and the drastic social transformations of rapid urbanization in his youth, Liu took on jobs in design and manufacturing to lift his family out of poverty between 1994 to 2014. Within his practice, Liu Sheng depicts the state of existence of migrants, attempting to document how China’s economic revolution transformed the country’s domestic sphere. At the same time, through the singular image of the 'Potato Man' he explores the intimate choices of village families in the face of larger forces of modernization, showing how these negotiations shape the configurations of daily village life.
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Gordon Cheung & Liu Sheng | "Stay Connected: Supplying the Globe" at Tai Kwun
