Repetition Maximum
2021
“Repetition maximum” (RM) is a concept in weight training, referring to the most weight you can lift for a defined number of exercise movements. The performance links up the parallel exhibitions “Too Good to Be True” and “Till Love Do Us Part”, which both tackles the relationship between queerness and social environments. During the performance, audience were invited to walk with the artist from one exhibition venue in Shek Kip Mei to the other in Tai Kok Tsui. Along the walk, the artist turned his artificial body and the metropolitan surroundings into a big canvas, as in such way he expresses as well as confronts the power hidden beneath the action of image manipulation.
「最大重複次數」（RM）是一個健身中常用的概念，所指要求做某個動作能夠做到特定次數的情況下，此時舉重員能承受最大的重量是什麼。是次表演將同時進行的展覽「盡善盡美」和「直至愛使我們分離」聯結，也與兩個展覽中所展現的酷兒性（queerness）和社會環境之關係一脈相承。表演過程中，觀眾可跟隨藝術家從位於石硤尾的展覽空間步行至大角咀的展覽空間。途中，藝術家把自己的人造身體和都市空間轉換成一張巨大的畫布，他的塗畫動作既抒發也對抗著隱藏在圖像改造過程中的權力。
The Intouchable
2021
Selfie sticks and accessories build up an organic structure that seemingly interconncts but rather isolates, whereas images of hand gesture extracted from profile pictures on gay dating apps indicate “a touch and yet not a touch”.
Too Good to Be True
2021- (Ongoing)
Trained with profile pictures collected from gay dating apps, artificial intelligence (AI) generates a series of images, which compose the main content of the exhibition.
The similarity of the images implies people’s perception and desirous pursuing of bodily perfection through social media. The distortions, due to the interference from machine learning (ML) metaphorize the morbidity of it.
The “collaboration” between the artist and the machine, not only questions the ways of the image production, asking “what is photography”, but also simulates how images are produced, stored, chosen, and reproduced in the process of online dating. Nearly a case study of modern online dating, it shows how the notion of beauty has shaped our social behaviours thus influencing our self-cognition.
Excessively Perfect
2019
Now that the Internet occupies the most part of the real life, and the on-line image invades your real image, we are crazily devoting our time and energy, as well as…love. On gay men dating app Grindr, how do people present themselves? What kind of relationships do they want? Stepping out of this virtual reality built up with images, which direction are they heading to?
Do You Know Where the Birds Are?
2017- (Ongoing)
Located in the bustling area of Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon Park is secretly known as a cruising spot for gay men wander who look for casual sex. The project observes Kowloon Park as a public space for recreation, as well as a ‘stereotopia’ – a place for a marginalised group to escape from social norms.
Award
Finalist, WMA Masters 2019/2020 “Light”
Exhibition View
Light, September 2021
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