Situated between the dual axes of misery and the inevitable, Hellish Gags , 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 […]
Square Street Gallery is pleased to present Phantasmagoria, a solo exhibition by Kary Kwok. Marking the Hong Kong artist’s first solo presentation at a commercial gallery in over two decades, Kwok will showcase a series of black-and-white nude self-portraits from 1993. Kwok’s series was inspired by the mystical erotic drawing The Hermaphrodite-Angel of Peladan (c. […]
Square Street Gallery is pleased to present Sediments of Memory, a trio exhibition with Emily Kueis, Wendy Tai, and Daisuke Tajima. The experience of a thing, our recollection of the same, and its consequent narration are necessarily incongruent. In her 1991 essay “The Evidence of Experience,” American historian Joan W. Scott examines the reading and […]
The experience of a thing, our recollection of the same, and its consequent narration are necessarily incongruent. In her 1991 essay “The Evidence of Experience,” American historian Joan W. Scott examines the reading and interpretation of oral histories and suggests that they should be read as literary texts subject to interpretation rather than static bits […]
There’s something punk about collages. Perhaps it’s the throwback to the do-it-yourself ethos of zine-making. Perhaps it’s the appropriation of images. Perhaps it’s the tapping into a shared mythology—ranging from the rhizomatic subcultrual niches to the lingua franca of pop culture. It is under this pretext that Square Street Gallery presents its first solo exhibition […]
In Feminist scholar Monique Wittig’s seminal text “One is not born a woman” (1981), she departs from a materialist feminist reading of masculinity and femininity. The title of the text—and this exhibition—takes from The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir. For Wittig, the theoretical possibility of a lesbian society (notedly, she does not advocate for […]
For Square Street Gallery’s upcoming exhibition, “The Giant’s Foot Scrubber,” we are inviting a group of artists that address the suspension of disbelief, the occult, and landscape.To think about fiction is to think about what lies before and beyond it. It is to think through conflicts and climaxes, heroes and villains, battles and fights, winners […]
For her first solo exhibition at Square Street Gallery, Hong Kong artist Wong Ka Ying (b. 1990) explores the layered relationship between people and their possessions, from kitschy plastic toys won after countless hours at the claw machine to million-dollar luxury pets bred to perfection after numerous experiments. Testaments of victory and status symbols, these […]
Drawing from the words of the artist Chloe Bass, we ask “How much of love is attention?” And what precisely captures our attention? Is it tactile sensations? The proximity we seek? In “Harlow’s Monkey,” artists E8MKBOY, Kary Kwok, Maari Sugawara, and Amy Tong critically examine attachment as currency, offering renewed positions that consider the forms […]
Square Street Gallery is pleased to present The Archivist Augurs, the Larper Dreams—a group exhibition which creates a dialogue between works by Dony Cheng, Dave Chow, These Faces (a.k.a. Jennifer Yeung), and Brandon Tay. The title of the exhibition borrows from Tay’s 2024 video work Emulator, which will also be included in the exhibition. By working with […]
Vernacular culture is rooted in action: to find ways, to make-do, and to improvise solutions. It is grounded in its environment and responsive to changes; an abundance of cool-green architecture and tarpaulins in the Philippines are among the many ways locals combat heat. Sensitive to finite resources, we reimagine new lives for old objects; single-use […]
Square Street Gallery is pleased to present Anabelle Lau's first solo exhibition, 'Readymades' from 11 December 2024 to 18 January 2025. In her Hotmilk series, Anabelle Lau appropriates the monthly Japanese erotic periodical Comic Hotmilk with three specific interventions: painting an exacting reproduction of the work in oil; painting directly on the pages of said magazine; or by […]