Current Plans is excited to present its inaugural exhibition Perfect Sense with Chris Shen, which showcases 5 site-specific installations that activate with motion sensors. Constructed with ready-made objects and positioned strategically in covert places, these installations wait to be triggered by the unsuspecting visitor. If automated devices were created to assist our lives by easing our burdens, they require our full trust and total consent. But what if they don’t do what we thought they would?

Rather akin to entering a haunted house, it is only with the visitors’ own courage and willingness to explore the vacant, (seemingly) unsupervised space, will they gradually understand the relationship between their movement and gestures, and the output of the automated installations. Through the transformation of the space from a generous container to a kind of macabre machine that waits and reacts, Shen invites the visitor to experience how automation can become not just a tool, but a space for self-awareness and reconsideration by stimulating our sensory system in order to alter and expand our everyday experiences with banal objects.

The exhibition is open for 24 hours and the artworks will automatically turn on upon the visitor's entry.

Gallery address: 2/F, 13 Wong Chuk Street