When Antenna Space celebrated a tenth anniversary just a couple short years ago, the world was in a weirdly fragmented state. We called the exhibition “Horizons,” after the hypothetical event horizon of an expanding cosmos, the place from which no signal could ever be received; we speculated that hope was our lone defense against the impossible—a protest against the infinite.
Today, the world remains fragmented, perhaps even more so than it was in those strange, post-pandemic days, when travel was again possible but the urge to connect felt like a distant memory. We see our technical networks breaking into closed circuits, China building and exporting a global alternative, Europe planning its own civic social networks, the United States a chaotic morass held together by the thin glue of fascism and artificial intelligence. For the first time in living memory, we are living in a truly multipolar world.
Artists: Xinyi Cheng, Cui Jie, Guillaume Dénervaud, Daniel Dewar & Grégory Gicquel, Owen Fu, Covey Gong, Guan Xiao, Han Bing, Hongyan, Allison Katz, Stanislava Kovalcikova, Mire Lee, Li Ming, Shuang Li, Li Yong Xiang, Nancy Lupo, Peng Zuqiang, Evelyn Taocheng Wang, Yu Honglei, Stella Zhong, Zhou Siwei (alphabetically)
Opening reception: 21 Saturday, 3-7pm
Gallery address: 19/F, 37 Wong Chuk Hang Road