Hidden Space is delighted to present "Your Warmth is the Cut of My Flesh", a duo exhibition by Mindy Lui & Shawn Pakhin Tang. They join forces here to respond to each other’s practice, and whilst there are distinct artworks, together they present a single entwined installation.

Both artists find common ground in taking everyday objects and rendering them into strange, allusive devices, multiplied here to the point of both absurdity and potential threat. The floor is alive with the constant flicker and faint noise of hundreds of compass needles on repurposed clock mechanisms, proliferating in a mass of electrical cables. Instead of the self-contained simple battery-operated clock, these are re-engineered to run off the electricity supply, to take up more rather than less space, to announce their energy use, using every socket and multiple extensions. Brightly coloured soap casts emerge as nodes from this cable network, their moulds taken variously from organic material, manufactured medical instruments and engine parts. Are they endpoints, are they active, or primed to be activated? If so, to what purpose? These are Tang’s, along with heat lamps designed to support vital reptilian body regulation, but clustered and caged here, giving off life-affirming warmth but also signalling danger.

Opening Sat 19 Nov, 4-8pm

Venue address: Unit 6, 16/F, Block A, Wah Tat Industrial Centre, 8-10 Wah Sing Street, Kwai Hing