Hidden Space is delighted to present “Sunrise. Shift your weight”, a solo exhibition by Sami Yip, the sixth recipient of our annual Hidden Space Award.

Across a series of videos, an unremarkable male body engages, or fails to engage, in a range of tasks in cramped domestic spaces, from a shower cubicle, a kitchen corner to a cell-like barely furnished room. Within them, the protagonist seems caught in either an exhausted stasis or compulsive but ambiguous behaviour. In stark contrast, an upbeat instructional video gives us the same person presenting a very different face to the world: energetic, directly engaging and greenscreen liberated from the banalities of relentless fatigue.

In Yip’s dream-like moving images, he weaves together concerns about personal and societal tipping points, both physical and psychological. His is a melancholy-saturated world that holds both the sensuous and the abject in the same space.

Opening: Saturday 6 April, 4-8pm

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