絕地 The Sovereign Grid: 陳漢標 Rex CHAN Hon Biu, 朱樂庭 Natalie CHU Lok Ting, 梁洛熙 Giraffe LEUNG Lok Hei, 施鏌涵 Victor SZE Mok Ham
Gallery Hours: Wednesday to Saturday 10:30am–6pm
Venue: Fo Tan (address provided upon registration confirmation)
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The Sovereign Grid 絕地 is the second exhibition in the Quartet series at To Art House 嚮渡藝術空間. Following the inaugural Memory Smuggler 九仞, four Hong Kong artists—Rex CHAN Hon Biu 陳漢標, Natalie CHU Lok Ting 朱樂庭, Giraffe LEUNG Lok Hei 梁洛熙, and Victor SZE Mok Ham 施鏌涵—developed an exhibition of new works during an extended residency.
The titular Sovereignty resonates here between the planetary and the personal. The Grid lays a fine layer of legibility, a geometry settled over the Earth and our inner lives. 絕地, the extreme terrain where the wilds thicken and the path dissolves, marks the precise coordinate where this layer thins, revealing the raw, unmapped textures of the land.
Rex Chan Hon Biu 陳漢標 (b. 1958) moves beyond traditional surveying to explore space through the lens of remote viewing. Replacing fixed landmasses with a restless, aquatic field, his spatial relations are fluid, organic, and negotiated. They exist within the shifting void between objects, unbounded by any superimposed coordinate system.
Natalie Chu Lok Ting 朱樂庭 (b. 1999) examines the human impulse to document and comprehend the world through cartography, framing geography as a site of transience, an ever-shifting record. Applying Kintsugi to fractured globes and integrating elemental materials such as plant ash, she illuminates the possibility of repair and the habitability of a place in constant flux.
Giraffe Leung Lok Hei 梁洛熙 (b. 1993) explores the boundary between official documentation and physical substance. He subjects topographic maps to tactile processes of tearing, grafting, and pulverising them into raw pulp, stripping data of its clinical utility. What remains is a silent, fibrous terrain inviting a closer search for the quiet echoes of a familiar landscape.
Victor Sze Mok Ham 施鏌涵 (b. 2003) investigates the lingering friction between physical reality and its mediated representation. His practice maps the chronopolitics of visibility, exploring how time and motion are captured or deliberately withheld. Through installations of obscured views and digital loops, he suggests the withheld holds weight equal to the shown.
To Art House 嚮渡藝術空間 intervenes as the primary fond de carte, the base map and conceptual ground for the artworks to occupy and redefine in turn their inhabited space. Amidst the rigid abstractions of cartographic projection and the ephemeral reality of lived experience, the artists expose, dismantle, and reimagine the cognitive frameworks defining our world. In the ensemble of the art works—a superposition of individual practices, a layering of distinct territories coexisting without collapsing into a single plane—a new topography unfolds, charting To Art’s future courses.