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Tromarama: Growing Pillars
M+, Hong Kong
M+, Asia’s first global museum of contemporary visual culture in Hong Kong, is pleased to present Growing Pillars, a new moving image commission by Indonesian artist collective Tromarama. The work will be displayed on the M+ Facade at night from Friday, October 6 to Sunday, December 31, 2023, and is accompanied by a series of animation workshops for children and adults.
‘Who is the actual owner of our monuments and how do these monuments take shape?’ Tromarama raises these questions in Growing Pillars to challenge the conception of monuments and their ownership, iconography, and value in contemporary society. They selected objects, video clips, and images from their personal archives, such as family photos, cassettes, and books, to compose a filmic movement overlaid by animated objects from their childhood homes. The symbols and motifs reflect the beauty and turbulence of life, evoking the intimacy of home and the intricacy of memory. Although personal archives are fragile, they serve as foundational support for growth and forming one’s worldview. The moving collage is layered with cleaning gestures inspired by the Balinese tradition of Melukat, a ritual that purifies the body, mind, and soul.
Growing Pillars is infused with emotion, care, and humour, distinctive of Tromarama’s practice. Presented on the M+ Facade, it creates an ambiguous space where the personal and the societal, the private and the public collide.
M+ Cinema
M+ Cinema strives for diverse viewing experiences that enrich audiences’ encounters with and appreciation of visual culture. The retrospective “Devil in the Details: The Cinema of Park Chan-wook” features cutting-edge works by illustrious Korean filmmaker Park Chan-wook, as well as a masterclass. Best known for his daring, sensual, and often violent takes on genre cinema, M+ Cinema will be featuring his most important works, such as Joint Security Area (2000), The Vengeance Trilogy, Thirst (2009), The Handmaiden (Extended Cut) (2016), and Decision to Leave (2022).
“Genre, Period” presents a selection of female-forward horror films that explore the turbulence and exuberance of pubescent womanhood, including French-Belgian body horror Raw (2016) by Palme d’Or-winning director Julia Ducournau, Canadian supernatural horror Ginger Snaps (2000) by John Fawcett, and A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014) by Ana Lily Amirpour.
The recurring series “Afterimage” continues to present important essay films, such as Sans Soleil (1983) by Chris Marker, 10957 Moons and 30 Elliptical Years (2022) by Linda Chiu-han Lai, and november (2004) and Lovely Andrea (2007) by Hito Steyerl. “Rediscoveries” will showcase the 4K restoration of Masahiro Shinoda’s noir masterpiece Pale Flower (1963) and Tsui Hark’s A Better Tomorrow III: Love & Death in Saigon (1989), starring Anita Mui alongside Chow Yun-fat. Afterimage and Rediscoveries are supported by CHANEL.
M+ Cinema also presents the Hong Kong premiere of Amiko (2022), an award-winning audience favorite on the festival circuit. There will also be preview screenings of Ann Hui’s Elegies (2023), a documentary centering on the filmmaker’s encounters with several important Hong Kong poets. “Screen Encounters” invites China-born, New York-based artist Cici Wu, who will present her work Unfinished Return of Yu Man Hon (2019) from the M+ Collection, in dialogue with four works by local and international artists that have marked the development of her practice.
