The Shophouse

4 Second Lane

Tai Hang

Hong Kong

New works by Robin Megannity and Rachel Lancaster are featured in Gentle Again, a curated exhibition of 8 artists in a dialogue surrounding intimacy, distance, ease, and effort at The Shophouse, Hong Kong. The exhibition examines our innate yearning for tenderness. In a world of trials and trouble – all we can do is ask that our discomfort be gentle now, and gentle again.

Featuring works on canvas, video, and kinetic installations, the exhibition plays with a precarious balance of soft tensions. The works highlight moments of suspense, either captured through an isolated image or prolonged via time-based media with postponed or indefinite endings. The artworks collectively allude to the notion of ‘the moment before’ – namely the moment before a conclusion is revealed and before relief or devastation is confirmed. Bound together by broken stories, the exhibition underscores a sense of incompletion that is paradoxically evocative of placidity and disquietude.

An array of non-contiguous narratives – reflecting topics of iconographic duality, identity construction, affective phenomena, geographical mobility, and more – is brought to the surface, elucidating glimpses of conflict that breach the peace. As if a distorted mirror haven enveloped in hushed chatter,  the exhibition proposes a choice – should we acknowledge the pain, or do we accept the comfort?

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