South Ho Siu Nam, Tith Kanitha, Lousy, Shinro Ohtake, Pak Sheung Chuen, Peter Robinson, Richard Serra, Santiago Sierra, Maria Taniguchi, Weng Io Wong, Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries /
CERTAINLY /
Mar 20 – May 3, 2026 /
GOLD by Serakai Studio
G/F Remex Centre
42 Wong Chuk Hang Road
Hong Kong
We – Su 12pm – 6pm
Special opening hours:
Sat, Mar 21 – Sun, Mar 29, 2026 / 10am – 6pm daily
Tue, Mar 24, 2026 / 10am – 11pm
“Draw a straight line and follow it.” This single directive in the artist-composer La Monte Young’s 1960 instructional work Composition 1960 # 10 is the source of inspiration for CERTAINLY, the opening exhibition of GOLD, a new Salon in Hong Kong by Serakai Studio. What appears deceptively simple quickly reveals itself as more complicated—the line wavers, resists, and deviates, exposing the friction and instability within even the clearest instruction.
La Monte Young—like his contemporaries John Cage, Nam June Paik, and Yoko Ono—blurred the boundaries between art, music, and daily life in the 1950s and 1960s, radically redefining what artistic practice could be. Their instruction-based works proposed that process, time, and lived experience were as significant as form or outcome. Over the ensuing decades, artists have taken this in different directions, opening the idea of an artwork to new forms of relationality and potentiality.
In CERTAINLY, this tension between process and outcome becomes a catalyst for experimentation, negotiating the space between structure and contingency, planning and improvisation. The exhibition brings together artists who respond—directly and obliquely—to this condition of uncertainty, treating deviation not as error but as method and as generative force.
From Richard Serra’s early experiments with molten lead and Pak Sheung Chuen’s open-ended Idea Frame (which echoes the spare logic of Fluxus instruction works), to South Ho Siu Nam’s cryptic photographs of underpasses, the exhibition gathers practices shaped by instruction, execution, and chance. Rooted in postwar artistic experiments with text-based scores and propositions, these works unfold through enactment rather than fixed form.
Across different media and approaches, yet restricted to black and white – each artist reflects on the impossibility of perfect predictions—and more generally on the creativity that emerges in the slack where systems and expectations begin to fracture. In an era increasingly shaped by algorithmic calculation, the exhibition reclaims uncertainty not as error, but as a site of agency.
CERTAINLY traces the many ways a straight line bends and falters. As the inaugural exhibition of GOLD, it establishes a curatorial trajectory committed to celebrating uncertain outcomes in the generative space between what is planned and what unexpectedly unfolds.
About GOLD
Situated in Wong Chuk Hang on the south side of Hong Kong Island, GOLD positions uncertainty not as a limitation, but as a necessary condition for cultural spaces of the future. Housed at street level in a former bank and jewellery shop, GOLD pays homage to its past while reimagining new possibilities for cultural spaces.
Combining the curatorial depth of an institution with the agility of an independent organisation, GOLD functions as a cultural test lab—part exhibition space, part concept incubator, and part gathering point for creative exchange. Through a programme that brings together surprising combinations of art, fashion, music, design, and technology, GOLD reflects Serakai Studio’s conviction that culture flourishes where creative disciplines collide.
