Isaac Chong Wai
carefully
Sep 16 – Nov 1, 2025
Opening: Saturday, Sep 13, 3pm – 6pm
Isaac Chong Wai in conversation with Tobias Berger: Saturday, Sep 13, 4pm
The talk will be conducted in English.
Blindspot Gallery
15/F Po Chai Industrial Building
28 Wong Chuk Hang Road
Wong Chuk Hang, Hong Kong
+852 2517 6238
Tuesday – Saturday, 10.30am – 6.30pm
Blindspot Gallery is pleased to present Isaac Chong Wai’s second solo exhibition, “carefully”. Chong explores the human condition through the lens of movement, time, and the traces they bear. He delves into the performative qualities of materials, showing their relationship with the body and their potential for world-making.
“carefully” acknowledges precarity while embodying a gesture of care. It proposes solidarity as a way to heal and to move forward from traumas. The new works featured in the exhibition continue themes Chong explored in his video installation and performance, Falling Reversely (2021/2024), presented at the 60th Venice Biennale, reflecting upon the fragility and resistance of the body in the face of systemic violence. In “carefully”, Chong probes our attentiveness to the past by drawing from his upbringing in colonial Hong Kong, contemplating what we choose to remember and its influence on identity and the present. Through neon lights, glass sculptures, drawings, prints and video, the exhibition invites us to reflect upon our shared humanity converging temporalities, and to imagine an alternative microcosm of human relationality through mutual support and understanding.
During the opening reception on Saturday (Sep 13, 3 – 6pm), there will be an Artist Talk – Isaac Chong Wai in conversation with Curator Tobias Berger at 4pm. The talk will be conducted in English.
