EVENT DESCRIPTION
On site at Eaton HK’s Tomorrow Maybe gallery, Brussels-based Filipino performance artist and choreographer Joshua Serafin (they/them) will present Grieve the Departed Wound, a solo exhibition themed around the speculation of their indigenous heritage and intergenerational knowledge. Working across dance, performance, visual arts and video, Serafin’s multidisciplinary practice examines spirituality, ecology, queerness and ways of inhabiting the body within a Postcolonial Philippines context through creating alter-egos, myth-making and world-building.
Serafin’s performative exhibition would transform Tomorrow Maybe from a white cube gallery into a black box stage, encapsulating movement in objects. Visitors are invited to drift through the physical and conceptual debris of their previous performance, following the artist’s instructions to perceive and perform the embodied rhythm between themselves and the artworks. Through reconstructing the scenography of past performances into installations, videos, and paintings, the exhibition renders the gallery into a vessel for the state of grieving, reconfiguring the relationship between wound and healing, relic and proposition, object and time, across performance and exhibition.
An exhibition opening reception will take place on March 20, from 6pm to 9pm, where Joshua will be present to welcome visitors and offer insight into the narratives and processes behind their work. Joshua will be in residence at Eaton HK from March 15 to 28 as part of the artist residency program, during which they will engage in cultural exchange with local art and performance communities and develop new commissioned works for Hong Kong audiences.
Venue: Tomorrow Maybe, 4/F, Eaton HK
