Hellish Gags

EVENT DESCRIPTION

Situated between the dual axes of misery and the inevitable, Hellish Gags [地獄哏], a term arising from the digital Sinosphere, examines the utilisation of dark humour to address historical and affective truths. In this exhibition, the ambivalence of lived experience speaks in the two-tongued idioms of auto-criticism and macabre. If, following Freud, humour is a pathway to open up once inaccessible sources of pleasure, then the artists of Hellish Gags offer up possible recourses in some of the darkest recesses of the social landscape.

Elliot Jamal Robbins
Namio Harukawa
Clara Wong
Qin Xiaoshi
Jason Pulgarin