RNH Space is proud to present Blind Curve, Hou Lam Tsui’s solo exhibition. Spanning videos, photographs, and installation, this exhibition features newly commissioned works that mirror commodified love, emotions, and bodies amid a capitalist society. The artist examines the perversion of reality in contemporary romantic relationships as well as our quotidian activities, rethinking the inevitable commodification through fragments and floating signifiers.

A significant part of Tsui’s artistic practice revolves around the media's all-pervading portrayal of intimate relationships and sexuality that manipulates our understanding and expression of love, happiness, and sadness. To collect the most infamous evidence, the artist situates her interest in Shōwa aesthetics and City Pop music in Japan during the 1980s, wherein a bubbly filter added to the entertainment industry offered people a way to escape from the harsh reality of the economic bubble. Tsui seeks inspirations from such a fascinating era with a needle in her hand–she pierces the bubbles for the unapologetically authentic human emotions to resurface. Just as the sad lyrics were sung along the upbeat rhythm and the inspirational idols fearlessly revealed their own heartbreaking stories, Tsui’s works always enable an honest space for women’s vulnerable, miserable and masochistic emotions as a form of resistance.

Gallery address: Godfrey Centre Shop 121, 175-185 Lai Chi Kok Road, Tai Kok Tsui, Kowloon