In computing and architectural terms, a render is a future ghost. Used to imagine parks, housing, even cities, these mock-ups fill in liminal spaces, their speculative form a fixed impression—however fleeting—of indeterminable conditions. Yet the process of rendering is more active. It percolates and boils at the surface of our present observations; it picks at […]
Larger than a hamlet, smaller than a town: the traditional village comes to mind as a cluster of physical spaces, agrarian and neighborly. Horses and oxen live nearby, chewing on local grasses; figures mingle freely in small courtyards and gardens; within hermetic houses, couples grow into families, families into clans. Yet how can this concept […]
How does one confront loss—personal and collective? In her past works, Michele Chu has engaged in relational art within the context of acute social disruption, building installations and participatory performances that rewrite public gestures. For her debut solo exhibition, “you, trickling,” the artist further mines rituals of intimacy and vulnerability, inviting viewers to participate in […]
PHD Group are pleased to announce Zheng Mahler’s first solo exhibition in Hong Kong, “What is it like to be a (virtual) bat?” “What is it like to be a (virtual) bat?” marks Zheng Mahler’s first solo exhibition in Hong Kong. The show features new videos and installations in an multi-sensory environment, and explores animal, […]
Love, hate, desire, disgust, birth, decay, death—are we perhaps waiting for some tenderness in all of this? Some vulnerability? When you find a bruise on your body, do you trace it with your finger? Do you feel those soft reverberations of pain and pleasure? Do they sing to you? We invite you to explore “Tendering,” […]
At 11:11am on Saturday, March 23, the Hong Kong artist Wong Kit Yi will open her first solo show at PHD Group, “+852 GHOST-JPG.” Featuring a new major video work Dial 432 to See the Light (2022-24), created during and after her residency at The Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas, the exhibition explores extraterrestrial presence, […]
In a modestly sized studio in Fo Tan, a couple works by side by side. By the window, there are paintings by Hong Kong artist Sarah Lai, who engages with image and popular culture in her scenographic recreations of space. Near the door, one finds research materials and sculptures by the US-born Samuel Swope, revealing […]