A present that with each step departs from the remembered past*

Opening: Thursday, November 8, 7:00 PM with an introduction by the artist.

“Walking along a building site, where the coast of Hong Kong has long been displaced through soil shipped in from Mainland China, I gaze at the continuous parallel lines of the omni-present red and white water filled plastic barriers. I recollect an online comment stating these oversized toy objects once had become steps for people to climb over concrete fencing along Harcourt Road.”
 
Antonia Low has an ongoing fascination with the materiality and construction of urban sites. Over the years she has documented construction-sites, barriers, fences and other public objects in the cities she has travelled to. She analyses the aesthetic properties of her findings and explores their possible meanings. Her research is then turned into visual objects, installations or constructed narratives.

As part of an artist residency with the Goethe-Institut Hongkong, Antonia Low continues her researches: In the dense and highly contested public space of Hong Kong, her exploration is focused on the diverse appearances of borders, barriers and other separative structures to explore their iconography, materiality and (immaterial) presence. Her interest lies in spatial reconstructions, and how memories as well as visions of the city both become imprinted in one’s mind and then superimposed on actual sites. In the exhibition space, these unfold as installation-like fictions.
 
* Laura Mansfield, in: Reversed Fiction, and Other Means of Memory, 2013.

An artist talk on the topic of "Who’s afraid of Yellow and Tape. Aesthetics and Global Culture." will be held on December 1, 2018 (Sat) from 3:00pm - 5:00pm at the Goethe-Gallery. Speakers: Antonia Low and Kacey Wong. Moderator: Vivienne Chow. The discussion will be conducted in English. Free admission. More information: https://www.goethe.de/ins/cn/en/sta/hon/ver.cfm?event_id=21414155&fuseaction=events.detail&

ANTONIA LOW
 
Antonia Low is based in Berlin and studied Fine Arts at Kunstakademie Münster and at Goldsmiths College University of London. She has had solo exhibitions at K21 Kunstsammlung NRW Düsseldorf/ Germany; Palazzo Altemps, Museo Nationale Romano/ Italy; Kunstverein Braunschweig/ Germany; Kunstmuseum Bonn/ Germany; Chinese Arts Centre Manchester/ UK and most recently at Deutsches Haus at NYU New York/ USA and Gingko Space Beijing/ China. Her work has been presented in art institutions such as the Irish Museum of Modern Art Dublin IMMA/ Ireland; Marres Maastricht/ Netherlands; MUDAC Lausanne/ Switzerland; Den Frie Udstillingsbygning Copenhagen/ Denmark; Skulpturen Museum Glaskasten Marl/ Germany and in 2019 at Neuer Berliner Kunstverein n.b.k./ Germany.