Denny Dimin Gallery is pleased to announce Lunarian, a group exhibition featuring four international artists at the gallery’s Hong Kong location, on view from January 22nd to March 16th, 2022.

The title, ‘Lunarian’ refers to imagery of moons and ‘mooning’ throughout the exhibition in both its visual context – the intentional display of naked bottoms as seen in Paula Wilson’s, The Light Becomes You, 2018 and Natalie Baxter’s, Housecoat VI, 2021 – as well as the emotional state of ‘mooning’ – a wistful longing – which is prevalent in all the works as they depict complicated relationships with memory, nostalgia and desire. The moon has always held a symbolic place in social, literary and visual discourse. In ‘Quiet Night Thought’ or ‘Jing ye si’ – one of the most famous poems written by Li Bai during the Tang Dynasty – feelings of longing and transience are prompted by the moon: 

Bright moonlight before my bed

I suppose it is frost on the ground

I raise my head to view the bright moon

Then lower it, thinking of my home village. 1

The simplicity of these words offset the challenging emotions experienced by the poem’s character. This in turn can be likened to several of the works in the exhibition.

Gallery address: No. 612 Remex Center, No. 42 Wong Chuck Hang Road