“Curtain”
Organized by Rockbund Art Museum in collaboration with Para Site
Dates: May 15, 2021 - Jul 25, 2021
Venue: Para Site, Soho House Hong Kong
“Curtain” exhibition, curated by Cosmin Costinas, Larys Frogier, Celia Ho, Anqi Li, Billy Tang, and Xu Tiantian, is a continuation of the unique dialogue and partnership between the Rockbund Art Museum and Para Site after the exhibition “An Opera for Animals” in 2019. The concept of ‘curtain’conveys artistic and conceptual references to passages, frontiers, separations, connections, occupations, circulations, and localities by drawing upon the mundane materiality of the curtain as a domestic object and its scenographic functions in various cultural contexts. Conceived as a framework to disrupt our usual habits of consuming visual culture, the exhibition presents across Para Site’s home and the institution’s temporary venue in Hong Kong’s Sheung Wan. Furthermore, “Curtain” also responds to research topics of forgotten histories, the criticism of surveillance time, the visibility and invisibility of scientific platform and social infrastructure, small-scale ecology and culture at the edge of mainstream, symbiosis among different regions, boundaries of electronic screens and the misidentification of identity. “Curtain” exhibition includes existing and newly commissioned works as well as site-specific interventions by 24 artists, offering a multi-layered experience that responds to the fluid concept of ‘curtain’. The exhibition opened on 14 May 2021 at Para Site and on 15 May 2021 at Soho House exhibition venue in the Sheung Wan neighbourhood of Hong Kong.