1. Ren Hang, Untitled 46, 2012
    Photograph: Courtesy Ren Hang / Blindspot Gallery / Para Site
  2. Pauline Curnier Jardin & Feel Good Cooperative, Fireflies (Lucciole), 2021
    Photograph: Courtesy Pauline Curnier Jardin & Feel Good Cooperative / Para Site
  3. Bruno Zhu, Call me, 2023–2026
    Photograph: Courtesy Bruno Zhu / Para Site
  4. Orelhão telephone booth designed by Chu Ming Silveira
    Photograph: Courtesy Clóvis Silveira / Alan Chu Silveira

How to be Happy Together?

  • Art
  • Para Site, North Point
Catharina Cheung
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Time Out says

Contemporary art centre Para Site is hosting a group exhibition inspired loosely by Wong Kar-wai’s 1997 film Happy Together, examining duality and the split between opposing pairs. The film’s protagonists try to repair their relationship by moving to Buenos Aires – the opposite side of the world and presented as the very antithesis of Hong Kong. 

Over 20 artists from Hong Kong, neighbouring countries, and Latin America have gathered with works that allude to Hong Kong’s clichéd descriptor as being ‘between east and west’ or ‘between tradition and modernity’. Between these two contrasting corners of the world, encounters both real and imagined are examined with a wide range of artistic practices.

This exhibition turns the spotlight on historical, social, and cultural connections between the Greater China area and the rest of the world – as well as how things might come together to form the queer happy-togetherness that Ho Po-wing and Lau Yiu-fai aim for in the film.

Details

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Para Site
22/F
Wing Wah Industrial Bldg
677 King’s Rd
Quarry Bay
Hong Kong

Dates and times

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