Cao Fei's new work Eyeliner(2013) create an oasis of rest within the heart of the exhibition. It becomes a bookstore where the visitor is invited to "take time" to discover recent history and to daily life in China from the stories behind the clothing she created.
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Home Works 6, its multidisciplinary forum on cultural practices which takes place every 2–3 years in Beirut. Cao Fei's 2 video works: Shadow Life (2011), Whose Utopia (2006) will be participated.
The exhibition program for Home Works 6 adopts strategies of spatial and temporal transferences, reenacting three key exhibitions that took place at transitional moments in history: the first Alexandria Biennial in 1955; the First Arab Art Biennial in Baghdad in 1974; and the exhibition China/Avant-Gardein Beijing in 1989. Inspired by Ibn Arabi’s concept of time as a fluid place and place as a frozen time, the exhibition examines the locations and conditions of the present, which finds itself once again at a historical juncture. The exhibition summons the past and present of Baghdad, Alexandria and Beijing to Beirut 2013, suggesting leaps among these different epochs and locales, and among the basic laws that have governed (and continue to govern) our culture and our thought. The exhibition does not seek to redraw a historical map. Rather, it presents a body of contemporary artworks against three crucial events—all of which were fuelled by important political, social and artistic movements—as a layer in time and place that is at once conductive and disruptive.
— Tarek Abou El Fetouh
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Cao Fei: House of Treasure
An exhibition of giant inflatable sculpture on the site of M+, Hong Kong' s future museum for visual culture in the West Kowloon Cultural District. Participating artists: Cao Fei (P.R of China); Choi Jeong Hwa (South Korea); Paul McCarthy (UK);Lukas Tam Wai Ping (Hong Kong); Jiakun Studio (P.R of China); Museo Aero Solar(Germany). In terms of scale, this is the largest contemporary art exhibition ever to be mounted in Hong Kong. Inflation! has been planned as a prelude to the planned fourteen hectare future Art Park in the District, with the aim of stimulating debate around the transformative power of art in the public realm, specifically in park design. The exhibition will also physically open up the undeveloped site, allowing the public to explore the parkland and consider the impact of the Art Park on Hong Kong's cultural landscape.
Inflation! continues the series of pre-opening 'nomadic' exhibitions curated by M+, marking the beginning of the museum's venture to explore different possibilities of engaging the public without the presence of a building – planned for completion in late 2017. Mobile M+ hopes to turn the supposed disadvantage of being 'rootless' into an advantage, by realising projects that would not have been possible in a single museum building.
Artists:
Cao Fei, Choi Jeong Hwa, Paul McCarthy, Lukas Tam Wai Ping, Jiakun Studio, Museo Aero Solar
Open:
Thursday, 25 April 2013
Close:
Sunday, 09 June 2013
Address: West Kowloon Waterfront Promenade, West Kowloon, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Opening hour:
Daily | 6am - 11pm
Transport:
Tung Chung Line MTR, Kowloon; Bus KMB 8, 11, 203E, 215X, or 281A and get off at the Austin Road West
