For our participation in the Hong Kong Art Gallery Association Summer Programme 2021, Axel Vervoordt Gallery is pleased to invite curator Chris Wan Feng to take over the gallery’s 21st floor space for a summer group exhibition Residual Heat. The exhibition features seven Hong Kong artists from different generations, including Kurt Chan, Jaffa Lam, Ocean Leung, Ivy Ma, Shawn Tang, Morgan Wong and Wu Jiaru.

Divided into three chapters, the exhibition traces the aesthetic tradition and the interconnected development of Hong Kong’s local contemporary art practice. The exhibition presents works of various mediums — painting, sculpture, video, and installation — and examines each artist’s intrinsic spirituality, burgeoning inner strength, and their resonance with material and matter, as they actively respond to the history and the present.

Chris specially invited the poet Liu Wai Tong to select three poems for each chapter of the exhibition. The poems respond to the exhibited works and merges with the sound materials of language and literature.

Gallery address: 21/F, Coda Designer Centre, 62 Wong Chuk Hang Road