Square Street Gallery is pleased to present Ticko Liu’s first solo exhibition 無厘頭觀看之道 | Nonsensical Ways of Seeing.

As Liu discards his rigid studio practice and instead pursues disengagement from reality, “set your sights,” or more formally “to set one’s sights on,” becomes an appropriate idiom to contextualise his work. It suggests that we can project a certain future and, with the necessary discipline, achieve it. By letting his gaze wander, Ticko Liu challenges this very conception which underlies the logic of Hong Kong —a city known to favour fast-paced structured development with measurable outcomes.

The title plays with the Chinese title of 觀看之道 [Ways of Seeing] (1972) by John Berger. By prefixing to it the word “無厘頭,” roughly translated to English as “nonsensical,” Liu references a popular form of slapstick humour from 20th Century Hong Kong, which plays on the subtleties of the Cantonese language such that the jokes seem to emerge from nothing.

Gallery address: G/F, Square Street, Central