EVENT DESCRIPTION
Hidden Space is delighted to present I remember you with wind in your hair, a solo exhibition by Betty Jiu, the eighth recipient of our annual Hidden Space Award.
Across spoken and written text, multiple videos and a single anchoring photograph, Betty Jiu creates space for the tender frustrations of intergenerational relations. A woman stands alone on a rooftop framed by dense cityscape. A handwritten text stretches along a wall, legible but not without doubling back and forth for the reader. A young woman positions a girl in a stark corner. Someone considers place becoming home, how a mother chose schools for her daughters… Among these initially disparate seeming parts, the image of a leafy tree canopy hung with lanterns offers if not unity, at least a truce.
Jiu constructs an open-ended sensory narrative to examine the uneasy gaps in familial (mis)understandings. The contradictory push and pull of emotional and physical closeness and distance play out, forever on the yearning cusp of empathy.
