All posts tagged: South Ho Siu Nam

Serakai Studio opens first contemporary Salon, GOLD, with group exhibition CERTAINLY 

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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 StudioG/F Remex Centre42 Wong Chuk Hang RoadHong KongWe – Su 12pm – 6pm Special opening hours:Sat, Mar 21 – Sun, Mar 29, 2026 / 10am – 6pm dailyTue, Mar 24, 2026 / 10am – 11pm serakai.studio “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 …

Luke Ching Chin Wai & South Ho Siu Nam

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By Diana d’Arenberg Parmanand / The first exhibition in Hong Kong addressing and engaging with the city’s current political and identity troubles, Liquefied Sunshine | Force Majeure is a creative dialogue between Hong Kong artists Luke Ching Chin Wai and South Ho Siu Nam that explores the notion of storms, one natural, the other political. With works made in 2014, the year of the Umbrella Movement protests, and 2018, the two socially engaged artists respond to the earlier protests and presciently foreshadow the protests and riots that are still unfolding in the city. In the bifurcated gallery space, Ching’s exhibition greets visitors with Liquefied Sunshine (2014-15), a wall of 721 postcards of Hong Kong and Taiwan landmarks, obscured by strokes of white ink suggesting a curtain of heavy rain. A video installation, Weather Report: Liquefied Sunshine (2014-15), depicts artificial rain brought by water trucks descending on art museums in Hong Kong and Taiwan. The inspiration behind the work lies in the use of water cannons against protestors in Taiwan’s 2014 Sunflower Movement, and an incident shortly after that when rain fell …