neither the West nor the East can be a determinate location | Katherine Ka Yi Liu 廖加怡

Katherine Ka Yi Liu 廖加怡, absolute truth (from the beginning of Earth – present), yixing clay, plywood, rain water, leaves, sand from Hong Kong and 20 cents Hong Kong dollars. Courtesy of the artist.

HILLSIDE GALLERY

3 December 2022 – 26 February 2023

Tuesday – Sunday, 10am—4pm

Collective are delighted to announce a new exhibition by artist-curator Katherine Ka Yi Liu 廖加怡 as part of the Satellites Programme.

neither the West nor the East can be a determinate location is a multisensory installation featuring text, handmade paper, found objects, scent, ceramic sculptures and silver casts.

To create this new series, Katherine has developed an engaged approach to archival research, in which they interrogate and challenge the Western, Eurocentric frameworks that have been imposed on Hong Kong (a British colony from 1841–1997).

This installation will be a space for reflection, encouraging visitors to reclaim strength and charge resilience.

Katherine Ka Yi Liu 廖加怡 is an artist-curator whose practice and research became witness to the political transformation in Hong Kong. Their work contemplates the construction of diasporic identities, and confronts the politics of power, gender(s), and race with a humorous touch.