The Hong Kong Arts Development Council (HKADC) announces its latest exhibition, The Lurking Void, at its distinctive multi-functional space, the SHOWCASE. Harnessing the full scale of the venue, the exhibition envelops audiences in colossal, site-specific installations, brought to life through unsettling sound and motion. Office equipment – printers, desks, cables, and scanners – transform into creature-like entities and landscapes, portraying a white‑collar world where AI does not replace humans but alters the nature of work, leaving people neither erased nor in control, but instead deeply entangled.

The Lurking Void is a psychological portrait of contemporary office labour shaped by the growing presence of artificial intelligence. Rather than framing AI as a force that simply replaces human workers, the project reflects on how work, identity and value are being reconfigured as humans and machines increasingly operate together. In this environment, the boundary between human and machine grows blurry and fluid, no longer a clean divide but an evolving field of negotiation. Through its installations, the exhibition responds to this complex symbiotic relationship, inviting visitors to consider what it means to be human in the “Post-Human Era”. The works are by award-winning Hong Kong artist Phoebe Hui, whose multidisciplinary practice spanning robotics, kinetic sculpture, generative art, sound, comics and drawing, gives this collective condition immersive form.

Venue address: HKADC SHOWCASE, UG/F Landmark South, Wong Chuk Hang