Tai Kwun Contemporary is pleased to announce the opening of its new exhibition "Hu Xiaoyuan: Veering," the acclaimed artist's first solo exhibition in Hong Kong. Opening 24 January, 2025, the show features twelve new works across seven thematic collections, all commissioned by Tai Kwun. In addition to the works on display in the exhibition hall, Hu Xiaoyuan has created two large-scale outdoor works for Tai Kwun’s 44 and 55 Squared projects, which will be on view at the Tai Kwun Parade Ground throughout the exhibition period.

"Veering" employs a poetic visual style to probe the relationship between the individual and the group, attempting to show how individuals exist and make choices in a broken and dysfunctional contemporary society. Continuing her signature use of long-overlooked objects, Hu Xiaoyuan focuses on the waste from social and biological systems, such as old steel from urban demolition, used implements from daily life, the dry wings of insects and the remains of marine life. For Hu Xiaoyuan, everything, whether organic or inorganic, from large-scale urban architecture to smallscale everyday ephemera, from herself to everything else on the planet, has a life trajectory.