[Nettime-ro] Two Thousand Eleven at Para/Site Art Space

[Cosmin Costinas <cosmincostinas2004@yahoo.com>]

Para/Site Art Space
					

						
                    

                        Heman Chong, "Monument to the people we've conveniently forgotten (I hate you)," 2008.
One million business cards. Courtesy of Vitamin Creative Space, Motive Gallery and STPI.   
                    

                
					

				
			
			
			
				
					

					
						Two Thousand Eleven

17 December 2011â4 March 2012



Opening:

16 December 2011, 19.00â21.00 hrs 
					


					
						Para/Site Art Space

G/F,  4 Po Yan Street

Sheung Wan

Hong Kong



www.para-site.org.hk
					


					
						Para/Site proudly presents Two Thousand Eleven, a group exhibition with works by Olga Chernysheva, Heman
Chong, Federico Herrero, and John Smith.



Two Thousand Eleven is a poetic though lucid reflection on this momentous year, with its succession of
historical events, with its hopes and fears, and with its spectrum of major implications that is set to mark our future
in innumerable ways. From the streets of every continent to the global trading floors, 2011 opened up the real
possibility of overhauling the neoliberal capitalist system, whose demise remained otherwise unimaginable in the
past decades and throughout the first years of the economic crisis. The hopes and prospects of change are nonetheless
blurred by a deep sense of insecurity in the face of the unfolding events and are haunted by apocalyptic ghosts
reminiscing the era leading up to the last world war.



This small-scale exhibition does not document the events of this year 
nor does it aim to predict the ones of next years, it
rather sets to confront the deep and rapid changes brought to our 
culture by the historic developments, claiming that
art's specific language possesses unique possibilities that allow us to 
identify the most intimate representations and
aspirations of our times and to offer us the critical instruments for 
making sense of our reality and for approaching
our common future. It employs works produced previous to this year, 
which nonetheless acquire new perspectives in light of the changing 
circumstances: Heman Chong's 2008 Monument to the people we've conveniently forgotten (I hate you)âa striking
installation of a million black business cards spread on the gallery's floor, marking the grounds and the terms of
discussion, Olga Chernysheva's 2008 Alley of Cosmonauts points to another, recent historic collapse,
that of the Soviet Union, whose ruins are still framing our world, and John Smith's 1985â1987 The Black
Tower, revealing a mental landscape from the height of Thatcherist Britain â the dawn of the era now ending, together with Federico Herrero's
site specific intervention, dissecting art's vocabulary in approaching the real.



Making this modest commentary on the state of the world from the context of Hong Kong carries particular implications.
Whereas the full impact of this year is yet to manifest itself in the city and its surrounding region, the geopolitical
outcomes of the Western centric order's fading power on the position of China and Hong Kong in the world
are beginning to mark the debates in the city's fragile public space.



Two Thousand Eleven is the inaugural exhibition curated by Para/Site's new Executive Director Cosmin Costinas.


Para/Site opening hours:

WednesdayâSunday 12.00â19.00 hrs

Closed on public holiday


For further information, please contact:

Para/Site Art Space

G/F, 4, Po Yan Street
 
Sheung Wan
 
Hong Kong
 
t: +852 25174620
 
f: +852 25176850
 
e: info@para-site.org.hk






					

					 
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