EVENT DESCRIPTION
gdm Hong Kong is pleased to present Chen Hui-Chiao: Under One Sky, the artist’s debut solo exhibition in Hong Kong.
Under One Sky traces the trajectory of Chen’s creative practice, spanning the early installation work Amorphous Company (1997), through the sprawling spatial intervention A Room with a View (2018), to newly unveiled works including: When the Spheres Merge in Colors for a Large Wall… (2024), Airco DH-4 1916-1918 (2025), and Starlink (2025). Employing needles and thread, cotton, ping-pong balls, and LED as vehicles of thought, Chen stitches aviation military symbols into everyday objects, probing how humankind has transformed the sky into a battlefield. When the desire for flight rewrites the stars as coordinates of war, how do we look up at the same sky?
ABOUT THE ARTIST / ORGANISER
Chen Hui-Chiao (b.1964, Taipei) is the co-founder of IT Park, and a pioneer of Taiwanese contemporary art. Through embroidery, installation, spatial intervention, and archiving, Chen navigates the intersections of astronomy, militarism, technology, and human nature. Playing with the material contradictions of everyday objects—ping-pong balls, feathers, beds, amongst others—her poetic vision is expressed through a refined visual language and provocative minimalist compositions. Chen Hui-Chiao’s works have been exhibited at a number of significant international exhibitions, including the touring group exhibitions Inside Out– New Chinese Art, in association with Asia Society and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (1998-1999). She participated in the 4th Gwangju Biennial (2002), and the 10th Istanbul Biennial (2007). Key institutional exhibitions include Here and Now, at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei (2006); Beyond the Tree, at the Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei (2012); Affect Machine: Self-healing in the Post-Capitalist Era, at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum (2021), and We Always Need to Create New Stories for the World, at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum (2025).
