EVENT DESCRIPTION
HART Haus is pleased to present Möbius Loop, Yvonne Feng’s debut solo exhibition in Hong Kong, following the Guangdong born, UK raised visual artist’s relocation to the city last year.
The exhibition features works from Feng’s ongoing painting series Docile Bodies, a trilogy of exhibitions exploring the theme through barrier, gesture, and sight. This presentation focuses on gesture, examining the intricate entanglement between the body and the spaces it inhabits. The works are exhibited in the ground floor gallery, where the interplay of interior space and street facing windows blurs the boundaries between strangers and intimacy, between watching and being watched, echoing the staged realities in Feng’s paintings.
Through a synthesis of bodily symbolism, pandemic inflected motifs, and fluid painterly gestures, the works probe embodied memory and the ongoing negotiation between control and agency. They revolve around the recurring motif of the hand, bare or gloved, serving as a performative agent. Striped garments allude to pyjamas or institutional uniforms, situating the body in states of both vulnerability and regulation. These hands oscillate between pushing and pulling, taking on and resisting tasks, exerting control while maintaining precarious balance. They navigate the thresholds between self indulgence and restraint, autonomy and authority, performing a delicate choreography of mutual regulation.
A second key element, the grid, functions as both compositional framework and metaphor—an ordering system that Feng constructs, inhabits, and resists. In her paintings, it appears as sketching worksheets and tiled surfaces, extending onto the gallery walls to evoke domestic, medical, and transitional public spaces.
The exhibition enfolds the viewer in a familiar yet dislocated environment, inviting an open reading of the looping hand gestures. Does the body adapt to its environment, or does the environment discipline the body? Their relationship unfolds like a Möbius loop—a continuous, one sided surface, seamless yet twisted. The body is at once a site of reception and an instrument of action.
