Cheng-Lan’s Corner is pleased to announce its second exhibition, Home, A Fire, a series of paintings, sculpture, and installation works drawn from the Cheng-Lan Foundation collection by curator Junni Chen. Bringing together works by ten international artists: Miguel Afa, Shiraz Bayjoo, Agrade Camiz, Chen Kong Fang, Laila Tara H., Li Chen, Lidia Lisboa, Narges Mohammadi, Yoshitomo Nara, and Sofía Salazar Rosales, the exhibition marks the first time several of these artists have been presented in Hong Kong.

The exhibition echoes the appearance of a home, each work referencing furniture, household items or domestic architecture. Seemingly innocuous at first glance, the works on view are the result of each artists’ internalisation of various agitations and pressures. From Laila Tara H’s Takhté (Backgammon)—which references her act of viewing revolutionary protests in Iran from a distance, in her own bedroom— to Sofia Salazar Rosales’ They Ask to Stay—which points to objects extracted from commodification and forced mobility. What is revealed through the exhibition is how our living spaces can bear the emotional weight, ambivalence and accumulated stress of dealing with socio-political forces that affect the small acts of our daily lives. Collectively the works contemplate how the home is where we formulate our own self-concepts of selfhood, belonging and identity. In addition it points towards how the act of artmaking can still be rooted in domestic, intimate environments, while addressing broader global crises and conditions.

An exhibition curated by Junni Chen

Preview reception: 6.30pm - 8pm

Gallery address: G/F, No.03 Princes Terrace, Mid-Levels