Opening: 16 November 2024, Saturday
Curated by Jims Lam and Carlos Quijon, Jr.
Featuring artists based in Hong Kong, Taipei, Manila, and New York, Weather-world re-imagines atmosphere as a blend of poetic and political landscape. Showcasing recent and new works, including videos, paintings, collages, installations, and sculptures, the exhibition explores how art can allude to atmosphere as a formative and contingent way of being in the world and revealing the broader non-human world through aesthetic categories such as landscape, naturalism, romanticism, and idioms. Within these categories, the concept of atmosphere, whether as weather or whim, shapes how we understand and represent the natural and non-human world and how we imagine our relation to them. The exhibition’s title “Weather-world” is inspired by the anthropologist Tim Ingold, who examines how the concept of atmosphere is molded by the fusion of the meteorological perspective— viewing atmosphere as a measurable and observable external phenomenon— and the affective viewpoint, which sees atmosphere as an extension or projection of inner psychic moods.