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CRASH founded on September 2024, is an artist-run alternative art space, aims to promote studio-based practice through organising artist-in-residence program, and providing accessible art space for artists and art practitioners.
The venue is supported by Marble Print Clay.
CRASH CONTACT
crashandran@gmail.com
@crash.a.space
CRASH ADDRESS
L3-03 JCCAC HONG KONG
Hou Ching 侯晴
@houfreeworld
AiR Period: 5-24MAR 2025
𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐳-𝐟𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐞
Date: 18–24MAR 2025
Opening hours: 1400–1900
Opening Reception
Date: 18 MAR 2025 (Tue)
Time: 1900
Venue: Room 303, JCCAC, HK
Curated by @gnownerak and @jenniferyue
See floor plan
See curatorial statement
About Hou Ching
Hou Ching (b. 2001, Hong Kong) lives and works between Hong Kong and Berlin. His practice spans painting, sculpture, photography, writing, and curation. Translating across milieus, the artist seeks to dissolve false promises and utopian visions into multivalent storylines, where hidden inheritances and debts emerge in a new light, illuminating the complex potentialities inherent in each moment of time.
Deemed obsolete or out of date, electronic waste does not decompose just as their warranty expires. These discarded speakers and TVs are collected by rag-pickers and sent for extended use in Pakistan, Ghana, or Nigeria.
The grandparents of Hou Ching, ran such a rag-and-bone business in Sham Shui Po. He grew up loading recycled electronics into containers, and his artistic practice of scavenging resonates with this family history in recovering the resilience of materials as well as their users’. With an intent to challenge grand narratives within the historicity of Hong Kong, he argues for situational and improvisational wisdom as the guiding principles for a transitory generation.
A stone lion guards leftover TVs. Who once watched them? Who will use them next? Second-hand shops are transitional spaces where objects don’t stay. Nothing remains, but the stone lion and a handful of pebbles.
Editorial by Karen Wong
Photo courtesy of CRASH team.