Tai Kwun Contemporary is proud to announce the opening of Waiting Pavilions, a public art commission by internationally acclaimed artist Alicja Kwade (b. 1979). As the artist’s first site-specific installation in Hong Kong, Waiting Pavilions precedes Kwade’s inaugural institutional solo exhibition, Alicja Kwade: Pretopia, which will open at Tai Kwun’s JC Contemporary on 10 January 2025. On view from 20 December 2024 to 2026 in Tai Kwun’s Prison Yard, Waiting Pavilions uses historically and socially contextualised objects. The work references Tai Kwun’s history to explore the present, the passage of time, and the concept of time itself.
Waiting Pavilions continues this investigatory aspect of her practice, using familiar everyday objects from other contexts. Glass bricks, for example, are reintroduced as static, freestanding sculptures, that evoke the concept of space more through their transparency to embark on a poetic spatial exploration of psychological border. Starting from the notion of our finite existence and time unfolding as an act of waiting, the new outdoor presentation bridges the past and present at Tai Kwun’s Prison yard.
