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Green Snake: women-centred ecologies – a new art exhibition exploring ecology, feminism and mythology at Tai Kwun Contemporary

Dec 20, 2023 – Apr 1, 2024 / JC Contemporary /Tai Kwun /10 Hollywood Road /Central, Hong Kong /Tue – Sun, 11am – 7pm / Green Snake: women-centred ecologies focuses on the connections between art and the larger themes of ecology in the context of rising temperatures and extreme weather events. Gathering more than 30 artists and collectives from 20 countries, the exhibition presents over 60 works that draw on mythologies and world views with women at their heart to explore possibilities for other ecological relationships and imagine other futures. Green Snake points to the extractive economies at the root of our ecological crises, economies that treat nature as a reserve of resources for exploitation. The exhibition asks what alternative narratives are activated through artists’ visions which celebrate nature as a generative force, many of them grounded in notions of care and interrelationship that are central to ecofeminism. The labour of care is essential to the reproduction of existence: this has been undervalued in patriarchal and imperial systems across broad geographies. The exhibition title refers both to the celebrated …