In the lead up to and during Household Gods, the first exhibition resulting from HART Social Studio, a series of conversations the curator and artists live-streamed from HART Haus and HART Hall, will offer behind-the-scenes access and insights.
The previous livestream conversations focused on the art practices of the other three participating artists in exhibition Household Gods, and in this post-opening dialogue, Nadim Abbas would like to explore on how the process of making of the exhibition sheds lights on the current developments on creativity in Hong Kong. As a Hausian, Abbas will also reveal his thoughts and feelings engaging in HART Social Studio.
About the Artist
Nadim Abbas examines the mercurial properties of images and their ambiguous relationship to reality. This has culminated in the construction of complex set pieces where objects disappear into their own image and bodies succumb to the seduction of space. Abbas was awarded with the Asian Cultural Council Altius Fellowship and the HK Arts Development Award (Young Artist / Visual Arts) in 2014.
Past exhibitions include: Participation Mystique (McaM, Shanghai), Phantom Plane (Tai Kwun, Hong Kong), Poor Toy (VITRINE, Basel), Proregress (12th Shanghai Biennale), Blue Noon (Last Tango, Zurich), Clouds⇄Forests (7th Moscow International Biennale of Contemporary Art), Camoufleur (VITRINE, London), Chimera (Antenna Space, Shanghai), The Last Vehicle (UCCA, Beijing), 2015 Triennial: Surround Audience (New Museum, New York), Unseen Existence (HK Arts Centre), Going, going, until I meet the tide (2014 Busan Biennale), The Part In The Story Where A Part Becomes A Part Of Something Else (Witte de With, Rotterdam), Tetraphilia (Third Floor Hermés, Singapore).