Ben Brown Fine Arts is delighted to announce our forthcoming exhibition Ze/Ro. The exhibition is organised by Hong Kong-based curator Shirky Chan as part of the Hong Kong Art Gallery Association’s (HKAGA) Summer Programme. Fostering the local arts community with a focus on young talent, the HKAGA’s Summer Programme actively builds a bridge between its member galleries, emerging artists, curators and writers within this vibrant city.

Chan has curated a contemplative and topical group show featuring the work of five emerging artists living and working in Hong Kong, each of whom addresses notions of identity, gender, society and self, framed by social constructs and desired dissolutions of gender.

In this exhibition five artists, Au Hoi Lam, Chan Ka Kiu, Christy Chow, Jaffa Lam and Jess Lau, explore the nature of the female world where women empower themselves by embracing their creativity in the realms of body and mind. Cross-generational women in distinct identity roles transcend acts of self-awareness into rewarding outcomes, from which a sense of autonomy is recognised through one’s individuality and multifaceted characteristics. Their works adapt the female’s multisensory experience from body to mind: a life-giving bearer that embodies changes and endures beyond our imagination; whilst being the matrix for one to envision fantasies, emotional associations or even a learning process in life.”