A series of ‘bed photos’ leaked upon hitting the Big Five-Oh triggers a reassessment of existence, time, fear, and the meaning of life.
The bed accompanies us through a third of our lives. When further aggregated by those moments of propping up one's pillow to reflect, it elevates into a matter of ‘life and death’. What can one do to pass the time in bed? Could it be that, amidst the passing seasons, countless philosophical theories, chicken soup for the soul and scientific principles, are nurtured here, weaving into a matrix that leads to the meaning of life? Within our perception of linear time, this matrix attempts to move us fluidly within the complex of past, present, and future.
Having just crossed the Big Five-Oh, the artist Jessica Shiu looks back and realises that in her past decades rather than being an accumulation of ‘life experience’, resemble a rhythmic ‘survival cycle’. Whenever ‘that news’ breaks, a profound chord is struck within her. It drives her to live her days with utmost efficiency and value during that fleeting window — until the spark of that catalyst gradually fades, and life lapses back into the mundane. The cycle repeats ad infinitum. Yet, when these cycles swell into a surging tidal wave, what follows is no earth-shattering epiphany. On an ordinary morning, the moment she woke up and opened her eyes in bed, she reconnected with a long-forgotten origin of life, the bedrock that exists before entering any matrix.
Through photography and mixed-media works, she transforms mundane objects into mediums for dialogue. She invites viewers to experience this primal origin, as well as some reasons for losing sight of it.
Exhibition Period
8 - 29 August 2026
Time
11am – 8pm (Closed on Sundays & Public Holidays)
Opening Ceremony
6pm, 7 August 2026
Artist
SHIU Wing Kei, Jessica
展期
2026年8月8日至8月29日
時間
11am – 8pm (星期日及公眾假期休息)
開幕酒會
2026年8月7日（五） 6pm
藝術家
邵頴琪