Exhibition
in Hong Kong / China
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- Jessie Makinson: Hisses & Kisses, 2022, oil on canvas, 120 x 200 cm, 47 1/4 x 78 3/4 in, Courtesy of the artist and Simon Lee Gallery
How do we find a way to expand the fabric of space and time? Can we defy the physics of reality through the innate drive of desire? Rather than create a world apart from our own, the exhibition “Machines of Desire” summons a vision of a parallel universe that exists as a palimpsest on our current reality, writing and rewriting the codes of memory and existence through artmaking across different generations.
Curated by Emilia Yin and Kat Sapera, the group exhibition “Machines of Desire” pursues the idea of “the desire machine” as a metaphor for the transcendent, glitch-triggering effect that art in the modern era can engender. With a focus on both historical and contemporary artists whose works play with and complicate familiar aesthetic languages and functions, “Machines of Desir”e seeks to encourage a reading of art as a mode of contemporary mythology or folklore, a space where shared documents of memory metamorphose into forms previously unrealised.
Looking at and beyond the impact of Surrealism, the artists in this exhibition utilise the energy of their personal and collated memories to create material that subverts reality, and in doing so, allows new possibilities to spill into the visible world and collective consciousness. A journey through the layers of images and emotions that are invoked through the magic of artmaking, “Machines of Desire” asks viewers to interrogate the ways in which art can conjure, keep, and project souvenirs of the past, present, future – whether they be real or imagined.
Joeun Kim Aatchim, Michelle Blade, Angela Bulloch, Leonora Carrington, M. Florine Démosthène, Shana Hoehn, Parker Ito, Hortensia Mi Kafchin, Yaya Yajie Liang, Jessie Makinson, Paulina Olowska, Catalina Ouyang, Jacopo Pagin, Mai-Thu Perret, Miguel Angel Payano Jr., Pablo Picasso, Roksana Pirouzmand, Paulo Nimer Pjota, Andrew Sendor, Jim Shaw, Kiki Smith, Aldo Urbano, Astra Huimeng Wang, Marnie Weber, Xu Yang, Xie Lei, Xin Liu, Yuri Yuan, Guimi You
Gallery hours Tue-Sat 11 am – 7 pm
Exhibition Duration 23 July – 10 September 2022
Location:
Simon Lee Gallery
304, 3/F Pedder Building - 12 Pedder Street
Hong Kong
China
