Empty Gallery is pleased to present Apologies and Other Regrets, James T. Hong's second solo exhibition with the gallery. Since the late 1990s, Hong has produced searing moving image works that deploy elements of experimental, documentary, and essayistic filmmaking to critically address issues of class, race, and historical trauma in America and East Asia. His research-based practice often operates along the fraught intersection of epistemological and socio-political questions, interrogating the manner in which knowledge is produced, disseminated, and manipulated in the service of power.

On our 19th floor, Hong presents the newest iteration of his film Apologies(2012–ongoing) in a monumental three-channel version. Shown most recently at the Jewish Museum in Vienna, Apologies is a taxonomic investigation into that most contemporary phenomenon: the political apology. Hong's film functions simultaneously as documentation of the technics of mediatized diplomacy, and a sort of historical index of past atrocities via their—often facile—national acknowledgments. On our lower floor, Hong will also present a series of new sculptures entitled Stabbed In The Back.

Opening reception: 8 June, Saturday, 6-8pm

Gallery address: 18th & 19th Floor Grand Marine Center, 3 Yue Fung Street, Tin Wan