Works by Wu Jiaru are on view at HART HAUS, as part of the group exhibition MADAM I’M ADAM.
HART HAUS and artist collective Gloria Awareness are excited to present an upcoming group exhibition "MADAM I'M ADAM", featuring latest works by six emerging artists practicing and diaspora with Hong Kong –– Amy Tong (Hong Kong), Chan Kakiu (Canada-born, Hong Kong-based), Dony Cheng (Hong Kong), Lau Hiu Tung (Hong Kong), Tiger Wong (Hong Kong), Wu Jiaru (Hong Kong-based).
Perhaps you are familiar with the exhibiting artists and their practices, and yet, this exhibition "MADAM I'M ADAM” is rather an unconventional and thought-provoking exploration of art-making with the concept of repetition and its inherent complexities. The works delve into the idea that repetition is not simply a reproduction; rather, it serves as a re-illumination that carries a displacement, inviting viewers to engage with the nuances of systemic repetition.
This multidisciplinary group of artists present latest works, highlighting how the notion of “imprint” can open fissures within the repetitive structures of our experiences. Spanning across paintings, moving images, sound installations, digital outputs, print-based experiments like frottage, and other hybrid media, the exhibition investigates the intertwining of technology and the body, necessity and contingency.
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In MADAM I’M ADAM, Wu Jiaru presents works across printmaking, installation, and moving image, examining repetition as a condition that is both mechanical and deeply human. Trained in printmaking, she believes that between mechanical repetition and the human expectation of variation lies a game through which civilisation evolves. Wu likens individuals to printers, striving for machine-like perfection, yet inevitably turning every attempt at reproduction into an event marked by human warmth and contingency.
Her work watercollection_victoria_oracle_i documents subtle changes in Hong Kong’s seawater over a ten-year period. Images that appear homogeneous gradually reveal differences through repeated recording, transforming bodily repetition into a state of fixation and attentive observation.
Text and images courtesy of HART HAUS.
Learn more –
https://www.hart.haus/exhibitions/madam-im-adam?shem=rimspwouoe,
