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Xie Xiaoze: The Archaeology of Knowledge
25 Jan – 19 Apr, 2025
Alisan Atelier
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Chen Wei: Breath of Silence
18 Feb – 12 Apr, 2025
Blindspot Gallery
CENTRAL
Inverso Mundus: City of Chimeras
20 Feb – 20 Mar, 2025
Tang Contemporary Art (Central)
SOUTHERN
Multiple Unrealities: Alessandro Giannì Solo Exhibition
22 Feb – 19 Mar, 2025
Tang Contemporary Art (Wong Chuk Hang)
SOUTHERN
Playful Scramble in Dragon’s Lair - Hayaki Nishigaki Solo Exhibition
22 Feb – 17 May, 2025
wamono art
CENTRAL
Through Time—Print Art in Aberdeen Street
22 Feb – 31 Aug, 2025
Print Art Contemporary
KOWLOON CITY
From Dust to Light
26 Feb – 13 Apr, 2025
Videotage
SOUTHERN
The Trivial Sublime
6 Mar – 5 Apr, 2025
SC Gallery
SAI WAN (WESTERN)
PUT ON
7 Mar – 7 Apr, 2025
HART HAUS
KWUN TONG
Paste and Keep Text Only
8 Mar – 5 Apr, 2025
WURE AREA
CENTRAL
Wu Guanzhen:Echoes of Shadow Exhibition
14 Mar – 26 Apr, 2025
Art of Nature Contemporary (Central)
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Ayobola Kekere-Ekun: Blooming Shields
17 Mar – 16 Apr, 2025
Pearl Lam Galleries Hong Kong
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TSANG Kin-Wah: T REE O GO D EVIL
19 Mar – 24 May, 2025
gdm (Galerie du Monde)
WAN CHAI
Three Stories: Monsters, Opium, Time
20 Mar – 13 May, 2025
Kiang Malingue
SHEUNG WAN
The Korean Narrative: Layers of Korean Aesthetics
20 Mar – 17 May, 2025
Soluna Fine Art
SHEUNG WAN
Secret Garden - Byoungho Kim Solo Exhibition
20 Mar – 20 May, 2025
Leo Gallery
CENTRAL
Souvenirs, Novelties, Party Tricks
21 Mar – 26 Apr, 2025
JPS Gallery
WAN CHAI
Collect Hong Kong 2025
22 Mar – 4 Apr, 2025
Hong Kong Arts Centre
SHEUNG WAN
Hong Kong Poetry
22 Mar – 27 Apr, 2025
Blue Lotus Gallery
SOUTHERN
Embodied Perspectives
22 Mar – 3 May, 2025
WKM Gallery
SOUTHERN
GONGKAN: ASYNCHRONOUS AFFINITIES
22 Mar – 14 May, 2025
Tang Contemporary Art (Wong Chuk Hang)
SOUTHERN
Soul Light Legacy Plan
22 Mar – 17 May, 2025
DE SARTHE
CENTRAL
Capsule Filling
24 Mar – 13 Apr, 2025
Capsule
SOUTHERN
Sin Wai Kin: The Time of Our Lives
24 Mar – 10 May, 2025
Blindspot Gallery
CENTRAL
NIAO NIAO: A Solo Exhibition by Su Xiaobai
24 Mar – 15 May, 2025
Pearl Lam Galleries Hong Kong
CENTRAL
Beneath the Golden Canopy
24 Mar – 16 May, 2025
MASSIMODECARLO
CENTRAL
Beauty Will Save the World: Eight Artists from Southeast Asia
24 Mar – 16 May, 2025
10 Chancery Lane Gallery
CENTRAL
Tradition Transformed
24 Mar – 14 Jun, 2025
Alisan Fine Arts
CENTRAL
Sarah Sze
25 Mar – 3 May, 2025
Gagosian
CENTRAL
Louise Bourgeois. Soft Landscape
25 Mar – 10 May, 2025
Hauser & Wirth
YAU TSIM MONG
Vapors
25 Mar – 17 May, 2025
PERROTIN
ADMIRALTY
Objects of Play: Hoo Mojong Centennial Retrospective
26 Mar – 6 Jul, 2025
Asia Society Hong Kong Center
Here Today, Gone Tomorrow
30 Nov – 25 Jan, 2025
DE SARTHE

Installation view of Hou Jianan's Here Today, Gone Tomorrow.

DE SARTHE is pleased to present Here Today, Gone Tomorrow, a solo exhibition by Chongqing-based artist Hou Jianan, featuring a new body of works on canvas that allude to the illusion of fulfilment that manifests in the cross-breeze of consumerist society and digital gratification. Sweet and plump yet empty and fragile, Hou’s imagery reflects upon the changes in perception induced by the falsehoods of artificiality and elucidates the ephemeral environments in which we currently exist. Here Today, Gone Tomorrow opens November 30th and runs through January 25th.

Central to Hou Jianan’s practice is the idea that hedonistic tendencies are amplified in and by the age of accelerationist technology. The desire for material and consumption is exponentially expanded as perceivable reality is made brighter, fuller, and more colorful through digital means. Hou’s manipulation of imagery reflects upon this phenomenon; combining digitally saturated compositions with the dimensionality of layered acrylics, the artist inflates certain objects while flattening others, crafting overtones of artificiality evocative of contemporary visual experiences.

The notion of happiness has seemingly mutated in the age of cheap and instant pleasures. The senses are flooded by excessive entertainment, and the result is state of mental paralysis wherein the mind is numb by constant and cyclical consumerist distractions. Within his newest body of works, Hou utilizes the recurring motifs of houses as well as domestic objects such as candles, curtains, and chairs, that he then intersperses with greenery and flora. Fresh and beautiful at first glance, the artworks evoke a false sense of security that is comparable to the fleeting fulfilment obtained from the thrill of automation and fast consumption. Yet, a closer inspection of the painted objects would quickly reveal the intentional falsities shaped by the artist. An indirect reference to the 1998 film “The Truman Show”, the artworks also comprise of artificial skies in the background, not only illumining the boundary to this blissful trap, but bringing to the surface that all that is perceived is but an illusion – one that is here today but will be gone tomorrow.
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