Time After Time
Basement, Hollywood Centre
Reviewed: Aug 26
Most of the works in Time After Time have been on show before, and displaying them again in an exhibition devoted to time seems arbitrary. Nonetheless, the show is cohesive and many of the pieces have a political edge.
Kith Tsang Tak-ping's Diary of a Distancing Place, first seen a decade ago, takes centre stage. Its messages about nostalgia, colonial and capitalist symbols and heartbreak set the tone for the exhibition.
Many artists play with the notion of reversing time. Zheng Bo's child re-enters its mother at birth; Ong Yong-lock and remus*ngsiufat's video shows a frenzied schoolgirl who finally dances backwards; Luke Ching Chin-wai's backwards flag-raising ceremony and Leung Chi-wo's reversed reading of the rules to enter the Hong Kong Art Biennial are worthy tilts at Hong Kong's conservative arts bureaucracy.
