Three children in the backseat of a car on their way to school, a brown shag carpet on brown ceramic tiles, wheat stalks in the spring, an exhibition wall, three Michelin tires, three stock pots, one green suitcase, and a yellow frying pan: an exhibition of works by Christopher Williams, on view at the Hong Kong gallery.

Many of the works that will be on view are from a body of work Williams developed in the 2010s that were informed by the artist's interest in two important Cold War era publications: Ty i Ja (You and I), a Polish magazine created by the Women's League that focused on domestic life, fashion, and culture, and Lui (Him), a French pinup magazine specialising in female nudes and erotica, which was source material for Guy Debord's influential 1974 situationist film La Société du Spectacle (Society of the Spectacle).

Epitomising, while also critically undermining, many discursive binaries within Cold War society—such as supposedly male versus female content, and Eastern soviet versus Western capitalist culture—these seemingly disparate but influential magazines served as source material for Williams, who, over the course of several years, assembled detailed archives devoted to each. Laid out on large tables within his studio, they became a kind of play script, which was then adapted to produce works reflecting on the social conditions of everyday life.

Gallery address: 5-6/F, H Queen's, 80 Queen's Road Central