15 Mar 2024—6:30pm
28 Mar 2024—10:30am

During ‘Sounding Lines’, the first major solo exhibition of the artist Aki Sasamoto in Hong Kong, the artist will stage two live performances in the exhibition space.

Fables, anecdotes, and biographical elements often seep into Sasamoto’s works that explore relationships between body and space, engaging viewers on multiple sensory levels through a stream-of-consciousness interaction. The newly commissioned installation takes over the entire exhibition floor, where waves will be sent via a system of metal springs suspended throughout the gallery’s architecture to activate a choreography of catalytic movements. The exhibition title ‘Sounding Lines’ alludes to the method of measuring the depths of bodies of water with a weighted line. Expanding on this concept, the exhibition explores the boundaries and interrelations among people and their physical surroundings, focusing on how these relationships define a sense of intimacy or distance to the world at large.

The exhibition draws a connection between a new series of work and Sasamoto’s recent moving-image piece Point Reflection (video) (2023). Centring on the idea of controlled chaos, the meditative film captures the artist amidst an array of objects as they momentarily float, scatter, and swirl on a table with air holes improvised from a modified commercial kitchen sink. Traversing sculpture, installation, performance, and storytelling, the exhibition highlights the rich interconnectedness and experimental nature of Sasamoto’s ever-expanding universe of objects, actions, and words.