The ACC HK announces its first-ever thematic exhibition to be staged at Art Basel Hong Kong 2023. Featuring prominent artists and a compelling theme, “Waters．Dreams．Realities” delves into aquatic landscapes and their literal/metaphorical implications, which is of central relevance to the challenging time we are living through now. In water, everything is connected and interrelated, but the undercurrents have the whole world watching its water. Between dreams and realities, how can humans hold onto permanence within the tides of time?
Co-curated by Jeff Leung (ACC 2012) and Vivian Ting (ACC 2017), the five participating artists include Lee Kai Chung (ACC 2020), Au Hoi Lam (ACC 2019), Vibha Galhotra (ACC 2016), Kingsley Ng (ACC 2013), and Fiona Wong (ACC 1998). Ceramicist Fiona Wong records tides' movements in her work Sea Brick, while visual artist Helen Au documents her memories through an almost unrecognisable seascape. Drawing from ancient myth, conceptual artist Vibha Galhotra's video Manthan ponders the cost of modernised development. In contrast, Lee Kai Chung's Sea Sand Home draws from archival materials and constructs a contemporary fable to illustrate the growth and collapse of a culture. Finally, in the face of crisis, media artist Kingsley Ng's Horizon shows that sharing water is about audience participation, and when understood in its larger meaning, it is a metaphor for sharing/re-distributing resources and values.
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