Distant Windows: Participation in "Infinite Narratives", a group exhibition organized by the Tomato Grey Artist Collective.

Infinite Narratives is a direct response to Tomato Grey’s New York exhibitions in 2010 and 2012, scholar Alexandra Chang of New York University published an essay entitled “Approaching the Infinite Narrative: Asian Art Now & The Tomato Grey Collective” in 2014. In this article, Chang discusses cultural narratives and their unfolding in the “Now” vis-à-vis the complex trans-national tendencies of a “Hong Kong identity”.

While the self-proclaimed Hong Kong artists from the Tomato Grey collective will produce works that explicitly reference Hong Kong, the partnering non-Hong Kong artist will be asked to “copy” and “respond to” the perceived identity as projected in the work, in acts of deliberate and creative misreading. Te “now-ness” is brought into sharp focus through a chain of representation, re-presentation, and re-appropriation. 

This collaboration will eventually take the form of an artist book, to be published in 2018. This exhibition at Gallery 456 will feature individual pages as works-on-paper from the 6 artistic duos. Participating TG members and their collaborations include Samson Young and Seth Cluett, Bing Lee and Ik Joong Kang, Kwong Pui See and Erika Kobayashi, Kaho Albert Yu and Yoko Naito, Annysa Ng and Patrick Fabian Panetta, Wong Kit Yi and Emily Cruz Nowell.