Nostalgia is easy. Thinking is harder. If your idea of Hong Kong stops at neon signs, this exhibition isn't comfortable. Hong Kong Nostalgia-Bait presents an alternative portrait of how "Hong Kong" is defined today - locally and internationally.

We are no strangers to images of the "old Hong Kong." Neon signs, Cha Chan Tengs, milk tea in ceramic cups stamped with the evaporated milk logo, ferries crossing Victoria Harbour - visual symbols of memory that dominate gift shops, commercial spaces, and even in cultural exports. When it comes to the art that the city produces, it is often framed in academic and international narratives with concepts of geopolitics and identity - distilling the topic into sharp, recognisable textures of place.

This exhibition asks us to confront a growing problem: empty nostalgia, — when memory becomes a commodity, visuals turn into souvenirs, and complexity is flattened into comfort for the sake of familiarity and consumption. Glass towers scrape the sky, reflecting not the horizon but ourselves, wrapped in corporate skin. We escape the office for lemon tea with a stranger's thumb dipped inside. We're baptised by sweat in rush-hour crowds. On the MTR, we scroll for beauty, for escape. This is also Hong Kong. Is this what we mean by the "Hong Kong life"? Meanwhile, nostalgia sells another image of itself - comforting, familiar, beautiful. But are these fragments of the past enough to define who we are now?

Come see some art you won’t find elsewhere, hang out, drink our booze and have some great vibes away from the serious hoity toity art world with us.

6 PM till late for all of you feral art animals. 25th of March is the date.

See you soon. Be there, or be square.

Venue address: 1/F, 23 Lan Fong Road, Causeway Bay