EJAR x HKAS Artist-in-Residency Programme 2024/25: DOWNSIDE UP OUTSIDE IN
Curated by EJAR
Venue Support by EJAR
May - Jun 2024
Venue Support by EJAR
May - Jun 2024
// DOWNSIDE UP, OUTSIDE IN: A Curatorial Statement
This exhibition, DOWNSIDE UP, OUTSIDE IN, takes as its starting point a world turned inside out, a reality where the familiar is rendered strange.
The exhibition marks the 3rd artist-in-residency programme of EJAR, which showcases 6 artists’ works after a 3-week stay at the site. The exhibition offers a glimpse into the insights, efforts, research and fantasies that drive these artists in the form of installation, which provokes awareness towards the physicality of representation(s). It is an invitation to embrace the unfamiliar, to find solace in uncertainty, and to discover the profound connections that bind us, even as the world turns upside down.
The artists featured in DOWNSIDE UP, OUTSIDE IN embrace this flux. Their work invites us to engage in a fluxing contemplation, a space where the boundaries between "outside in" and "inside-out" dissolve. Through their chosen mediums, they grapple with the hybrid intersections of uncertainty, physicality, reality, filiality, and religiosity. These themes, while seemingly disparate, are revealed to be subtly interconnected. The artists, through their individual practices, unearth unexpected connections and shared unsettledness. This shared space of creation fosters a sense of bonding, a platform for dialogue and understanding.
We exist in a state of downside up all along, facing an unshakable impermanence that defies easy categorization. Yet such experience, rather than one of chaos, actually suggests an urge for a site of fertile exploration, an "upside-down of the upside-down", where rebellion itself is challenged.
This exhibition, DOWNSIDE UP, OUTSIDE IN, takes as its starting point a world turned inside out, a reality where the familiar is rendered strange.
The exhibition marks the 3rd artist-in-residency programme of EJAR, which showcases 6 artists’ works after a 3-week stay at the site. The exhibition offers a glimpse into the insights, efforts, research and fantasies that drive these artists in the form of installation, which provokes awareness towards the physicality of representation(s). It is an invitation to embrace the unfamiliar, to find solace in uncertainty, and to discover the profound connections that bind us, even as the world turns upside down.
The artists featured in DOWNSIDE UP, OUTSIDE IN embrace this flux. Their work invites us to engage in a fluxing contemplation, a space where the boundaries between "outside in" and "inside-out" dissolve. Through their chosen mediums, they grapple with the hybrid intersections of uncertainty, physicality, reality, filiality, and religiosity. These themes, while seemingly disparate, are revealed to be subtly interconnected. The artists, through their individual practices, unearth unexpected connections and shared unsettledness. This shared space of creation fosters a sense of bonding, a platform for dialogue and understanding.
We exist in a state of downside up all along, facing an unshakable impermanence that defies easy categorization. Yet such experience, rather than one of chaos, actually suggests an urge for a site of fertile exploration, an "upside-down of the upside-down", where rebellion itself is challenged.
