Current Plans, Hong Kong
9/4/21-2/5/21
As infinite new realities are continually being created through CGI, You’re not really here, are you? explores the fluidity of artificial landscapes in which artists create and re-interpret their identities through myth-making. The invention of myths involves a duality of time, simultaneously (mis)remembering a past, while inventing a future that is assembled from the present -- an unstable, swaying moment, neither here nor there.
The artists in this show create versions of alternative realities through different means, but always intimate, sensorial, and with a touch of humour -- Yang Jing and Alan Kwan presents The Forgetter, an arthouse video game that invites the player to violently destroy unwanted memories to construct a more desirable brain which can be sold as a commodity.
