Kangaroo, Panda and Dog

Exhibition opens on July 2, 2025 (Wed) from 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM with a guided tour by the curator and the artists. All are welcome!

Opening hours of the Goethe-Gallery and Black Box Studio
10:00 AM - 7:00 PM (Mon - Fri)
9:30 AM - 6:30 PM (Sat)
Closed on Sundays and Public Holidays

Curator: Wong Ka Ying
Artists: Ailsa Wong | Grace Liu | Tsz Ying | Holok Chen | Kong Yiu Wing | Cheung Sin Yi, Selina

Curatorial Statement
Drawing on the symbolic resonance of animals such as dogs, horses, and mules in Cantonese labor metaphors, this exhibition explores the exhaustion, repetition, and invisibility underpinning Hong Kong’s gig economy. Figures like the kangaroo and panda—appropriated in food delivery branding and state-endorsed “panda economy” strategies—are recontextualized to reveal deeper entanglements between platform capitalism and public policy. Through the lens of animality, the project critiques how bodies become algorithmically managed and exploited in ever-moving cycles of service and consumption. Viewers are invited to reflect on how labor has become increasingly mobile, precarious, and dehumanized within digitally governed infrastructures.

Through a constellation of installations, videos, participatory game and documentary practices, the exhibition critically engages the aesthetics and temporalities of endurance under algorithmic governance. Together, these works expose unseen narratives behind food delivery platforms and capitalism economic system, transforming familiar urban rhythms into spaces of critical reflection on endurance, value, and survival.

Wong Ka Ying (b. 1990) is an artist, curator and writer based in Hong Kong. She is currently a PhD candidate in Cultural Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Wong’s work is socially engaged and community-oriented; her research topics include gender equality, the queer identity, disability rights, minority groups, and labour rights. Recent projects: Out of Delivery (Goethe-Institut Hongkong, 2024-2025), PUT ON (HART Haus, 2025), Togetherness: Bethune House Fund Raiser/Auction (Wyndham Social, 2024-2025), One is not born a woman (Co-curated, Square Street Gallery, 2024).

Ailsa Wong’s practice spans across paintings, videos, image-making, games, and installations. Wong explores ways to connect consciousness with primitive emotions to fill the vacuum of belief. Wong’s means of communication draw inspiration from fractured life experiences, where in meaning is repeatedly dissolved and re-established. Wong’s solo exhibitions include “1” at DE SARTHE (Hong Kong, 2025), “Disembody” at Cattle Depot Artist Village (Hong Kong, 2025), and “00:00” at Yrellag Gallery (Hong Kong, 2024). Wong participated in duo solo exhibition “This Bitter Earth” at Gallery Exit (Hong Kong, 2019), joint exhibition “I Don’t Know How to Love You Teach Me to Love” at Das Esszimmer (Germany, 2024), and “Ways of Running and Embracing” at Floating Projects (Hong Kong, 2023). Wong currently lives and works in Hong Kong.

Grace Liu is a curious person who enjoys independently roaming different areas and disciplines on the search for new discoveries which she may utilise for her projects. She is particularly interested in exploring the possibilities of artistic expression using accessible everyday objects. Her goal is to create the extraordinary within the ordinary, actively practicing her life philosophy of integrating art and daily living. Liu’s past exhibitions included To be CONTINUED (2021), UpCycle (2014), Ocean Art Walk (2014), Garbage revolution (2012).

Holok Chen - Once upon a time, there were a group of alien people wandering around across the universe, hidden between the cracks…. Their discourse surrounds the ideas of precarious life, displacement and dysphoria through speculative fabulation and void punk. The gender-neutral persona takes inspirations from sci-fi and circus performers, expressing a profound sense of loss and sadness. Their past works include the Surviving Natality (smalltune press 2021), Chronicle of a Mother From Mercury 1.0 (2024), Death in Water (2024) exhibition, Voidpunk Almanac (2023), Where Are My People? - Art Basel Hong Kong 2025

OMNIA MEA MECUM PORTO; PER ASPERA AD ASTRA

KONG Yiu Wing is a Hongkonger, he views creative work as a way to explore and respond to his own identity. His artistic practice is inspired from everyday objects, interviews with local people, while also engaging with government propaganda films, official archives, and public records. He works across project-based art, documentary filmmaking, computer animation, etc. In 2020, He started to work as a courier for a food platform, and later founded the multimedia production studio 24 over 1 Studio (一分之二十四工作室). He recently completed the feature-length documentary “The Road Runners’ spring” (《馬路跑手之春》) and is currently developing the ongoing archival project “Hongkongers’ archive of 100 objects”(《香港百物檔案館》).

CHEUNG Sin Yi, Selina - After graduating with a degree in linguistics, Selina worked for a labor organization before joining the community arts group "v-artivist" (影行者), collaborating with individuals/groups from diverse grassroots backgrounds to produce short films and other media works. Three years ago, while transitioning into a slash career, she was invited to begin working on the documentary “The Road Runners’ spring”. During the production of the documentary, she also became a courier. She is now an after-school tutor, clerical worker, courier, interpreter, video producer, tutor/facilitator of arts/creativity workshops/programme.