Franz Ackermann
PIFO, Beijing
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Superstructure
Leo Gallery
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“Angelus Novus”
AYE Hong Kong project space
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2018 Art Taipei
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Light, Dark, Other: Mit Jai Inn solo Exhibition
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Extending Space – 2018 Dongguan sculpture and Installation Art Festival
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Ariel Hassan
TRAGEDY OF EQUALITY / ACT 1:
—HEAD SHAVING BATTLE, Tokyo!
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Welcome to Geumhyung Jeong’s ‘Spa & Beauty Berlin’
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The last two decades of precipitous change have provided much grist for recent exhibitions, artist talks, and essays. The pre-eminence of digital technologies in society, the unpredictable advances in biotechnology and Artificial Intelligence, and irreversible environmental degradation encapsulated under the banner of the Anthropocene all speak to a certain disquiet towards unproblematic notions of progress.
In the small alleyway of Hi Lung Lane in Yau Ma Tei, Kowloon, such iconography gains unexpected meaning cast in the bright LED awning hanging over a currency exchange shop… Paradoxically, as we’ve witnessed more and more recently—despite talk of walls, borders, and ongoing trade wars—we get nowhere unless things keep moving.
The first was that we understand our localities better than outsiders do; and the second, was that we know better than the locals how things ought to be. This brings me to reflect again on the anxiety caused by On Practice—Northeast Asia (实践论-东北亚) a year and a half ago; it’s relevance seems pretty clear.
