Tai Kwun Contemporary is delighted to announce a new live art exhibition by the trailblazing artist and choreographer Maria Hassabi (b. Cyprus; lives in New York and Athens). Her first solo exhibition in Asia, Maria Hassabi: I’ll Be Your Mirror will be presenting live installations that explore the sculptural body, image-making, and the deceleration of time. Comprising elements of performance, sound, photography and painting, the exhibition includes works newly commissioned for Tai Kwun’s architectural environment.

Maria Hassabi: I’ll Be Your Mirror gravitates around the production and transmission of image through the usage of mirrors dressed in gold. Playing with the myriad meanings and representations of gold in ancient and contemporary myths—as a colour in divination, as a symbolic representation of capitalism, or even a kitsch sample from pop culture—the permanence of gold historically connected the substance to eternity and the divine, yet this desire to possess gold has also turned into a symbol of capital and accelerated consumerism. The paradox between the immutability of gold and the shifting perceptions of its representation echoes the tensions in Hassabi’s practice—between subjects and objects, dance and sculpture, the live body and still images, the spectacular and the everyday.

The exhibition is constructed by durational performances which run daily from 11am to 7pm Tuesdays to Sundays, performed by dancers from Hong Kong and around the world. The artist will also be present in the exhibition for the first half of the exhibition period. A conversation with the artist will take place in October, while Tai Kwun Contemporary will also be hosting a series of public programmes during the course of the exhibition, so please stay tuned for further details.