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Various artists 群展

Published by Brady Ng

Spectrosynthesis /Art Sonje Center /Seoul /Mar 20 – Jun 28, 2026 / Perhaps to understand the essence of Spectrosynthesis Seoul required stepping out of the show. The fourth edition of a series organised by the Sunpride Foundation – following stops in Taipei (2017), Bangkok (2019) and Hong Kong (2022) – it was also the first large-scale institutional exhibition of queer art in Korea. The more time you spent in the show, the weightier that milestone felt. Jongno 3-ga, just a 20-minute walk southeast from the show’s venue Art Sonje Center, has long been a gathering place for older gay men in Seoul, with bars, clubs and meeting spots in the alleys of Ikseon-dong and Nakwon-dong. These were spaces that developed organically, with memories held only in the heads of those who lived them, in a country where that history has rarely been documented. Both neighbourhoods are being rapidly gentrified now, and the spaces that served the queer community for decades are being replaced by independent coffee shops and boutique hotels. Itaewon’s role in shaping queer …

Myth Makers — Spectrosynthesis III

Published by Brady Ng

Tai Kwun Contemporary / Hong Kong / Dec 24 – Apr 10, 2023 / There’s a quote that aspirational content creators like to share online: “Those who tell stories rule the world.” It’s often attributed to Plato or Aristotle, while some say it is wisdom passed down by the Hopi or Navajo Native Americans, but nobody can pin down its origins. Perhaps the line is a modern piece of prose attached to the distant past to feign legitimacy, or maybe thinkers from different eras and geographies landed on the same thought. In any case, it’s branded into the collective consciousness of 21st-century storytellers, giving a semblance of meaning to the words and images they generate. This is precisely how myths are seeded, their origins eventually lost but tales retold with embellishments and new interpretations injected in each iteration. Maybe those who make myths don’t rule the world, but they certainly shape it. The third edition of the Sunpride Foundation’s Spectrosynthesis exhibitions, presented at Tai Kwun and curated by Inti Guerrero and Chantal Wong, involved artworks …

Myth Makers—Spectrosynthesis III at Tai Kwun Contemporary

Published by Artomity Magazine

Myth Makers—Spectrosynthesis III Dec 24, 2022 – Apr 10, 2023 JC Contemporary Tai Kwun 10 Hollywood Road Central, Hong Kong Tue – Sun, 11am – 7pm taikwun.hk Tai Kwun Contemporary and Sunpride Foundation are proud to co-present Myth Makers—Spectrosynthesis III, one of the first major survey exhibitions on LGBTQ+ perspectives in Hong Kong. Curated by Inti Guerrero and Chantal Wong, Myth Makers draws inspiration from artists addressing “queer mythologies,” who highlight same-sex love / desire and gender fluidity as found in ancient belief systems and traditions in Asia. Expanding on the Spectrosynthesis exhibition series from Taipei and Bangkok, this iteration in Hong Kong features more than 100 artworks by over 60 artists in Asia and its diasporas, with one third of the works loaned from Sunpride’s collection. Myth Makers unfolds through three distinctive chapters and encompasses newly produced artworks and historical works from the 1940s to the 1990s. In bringing together such a plethora of artistic perspectives and vocabularies, the exhibition endeavours to present a multiplicity of conversations, representations, and anti-representations of stories, individuals and …