New Pessimism

Of Oysters, Roaches, and New Pessimism in Hong Kong

It’s all very Videodrome. That body horror manifests in phone-breath-bed 3 (2023), a sculpture presented in its own small room. A silicone face emerges out of a Perspex panel, where, lower down, a silicone slab forms a womblike concave depression. The panel hovers over the form of a hospital bed with the support of gray plastic piping, whose mattress is a screen-skin painting with creased dermal folds framing silicone protrusions that swell from the flatness.

Type:
Reviews
Source:
June 29, 2023
Location:
Hong Kong
Credit:
Text / Stephanie Bailey