New Territories by Gordon Cheung 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 Gordon Cheung's participation 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 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.
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Gordon Cheung | "Stay Connected: Supplying the Globe" at Tai Kwun
