PODIUM is proud to announce the gallery's inaugural exhibition ‘Weirding Worlds’, a three-person presentation featuring paintings, sculptures, and video works by contemporary female artists Shuyi Cao, Anastasia Komar, and So Young Park. Taking Donna Haraway’s Chthulucene as the line of flight, the artists' distinct yet intertwined aesthetical trajectories and boundary-defying use of media visualise the necessary third history beyond the mastery narratives of the Anthropocene and Capitalocene, challenging the linear progression and apocalyptic rhetoric inherent in Western-centric frameworks with imaginative, queer vocabularies and practices.

Seeking potential refuge that transcends the strictures of grand narratives, the exhibition invites the audience to turn to Donna Haraway's idea of the Chthulucene to explore new ways of understanding ourselves as part of and becoming with the evolving planetary community. As the feminist scholar and historian of science and technology explains, one needs to first envision a worldview that calls for ‘ongoing multispecies stories and practices of becoming-with in times that remain at stake, in precarious times, in which the world is not finished and the sky has not fallen', then may realise that ecological interdependence is to open up multiple possibilities of kinship for future becoming. Put differently, rather than reinforcing bondings that are rooted in ancestry and genealogy, it is to understand that all earthlings are kin on the level of matter and energy—after all, every sentient being shares a common flesh of molecules, atoms, and quantum particles. In a similar vein, Shuyi Cao's multimedia sculptural installations and moving image work, Anastasia Komar's biomorphic sculptural panels, and So Young Park's sci-fi landscape paintings invite the audience to intensely interact, interplay, and collaborate with Earth-dwellers that represent voices of abjection and destabilising orders, where all can embrace and flourish in an ever-weirding climate.

Opening reception: 23 March 2024 (Sat) from 2 to 7 PM (artists will be present)

Gallery address: Unit 9D, E Tat Factory Building, 4 Heung Yip Road, Wong Chuk Hang