a room different from the one you are in now

is a site-specific mixed media art installation that explores the manifestation of overlapping spaces, (anti-)compromise, and the ever-expanding distance between individuals.

This exhibition is the long-anticipated opportunity for composer and sound artist Alain Chiu, choreographer and video designer Max Lee, and producer and curator Jacqueline Wong, three core members of Trilateral Lab, an artistic collective based in Hong Kong, to meet in the same space, since the outbreak of the COVID pandemic. Lee and Wong have since migrated to the United Kingdom and Germany respectively, and have not been able to travel back to Hong Kong due to travel restrictions and strict COVID measures imposed by the Hong Kong government.  

The idea of the project began in 2019, when the three did an artist residency at Prenzlauer Studio in Berlin, at the time of the Hong Kong protests. Returning to the space three years after, in this exhibition, Chiu and Lee each bring in objects and videos that they have each created in the previous years, with the other’s support throughout the creative process. Changes to the artworks are made to adapt to the space and particular context, being far removed from their original locality, to acquire new meanings in the current configuration. Wong, who has been supporting the collective as a dialogue facilitator and producer, has taken the role of curator in the project. While being an exhibition space, the space in question is also an artist’s studio where other Berlin-based artists inhabit and whose business will go on as usual during the exhibition period. The project examines the complex emotions of individuals who have experienced social turmoil and its aftermath, both physically and remotely, and how the idea of distance may be translated through the overlapping of various performances and manifestations of space. 

Opening
15.09.22
19:00

Exhibition
16 - 24.09.22
13:00 - 21:00

Live sessions, performances, artist-sharing, and workshop