Spring Workshop is honoured to present Tai Kwun Contemporary’s inaugural exhibition Dismantling the Scaffold. The show has grown out of an auspicious convergence of timing. As Spring Workshop begins a planned hiatus after five years of collaborating with non-profit organisations and artists around the world, Tai Kwun Contemporary undertakes its first collaboration as a new cultural hub.

With a mission to support Hong Kong’s rapidly expanding art ecology over a five-year period, the non-profit initiative Spring Workshop (2012-2017) hosted a multitude of residencies, exhibitions and programs, working with artists and organisations here and abroad while experimenting with the ideas that underpin artist engagement, audience experience, and partnership.

What we offer with this show, as a parting gesture from Spring, is a snapshot of the strength inherent to collaboration, a picture of what blooms from years of dialogue, exchange and communal effort. Together with Tai Kwun Contemporary, we aim to present the power that art has to open conversations, to make voices heard, and to bring us closer to recognising our positions in the collective present.

As we marvel at the mysterious layers of the world, it can be helpful to partially dismantle them, and to then take a look at them from new angles and in a new light. This process creates a space that nurtures fresh tendrils of understanding. For this show, in close collaboration with Spring’s team and the participating artists, curator Christina Li has brought together works that reflect the value of this endeavour and the value of collaboration.

We would like to thank Tai Kwun Contemporary and the Jockey Club for the opportunity to present these artworks. We hope they provide you with glimmers of insight into the radiant diversity of perspectives in our shared world.