Aki Sasamoto / Trevor Yeung / Yeung Siu Fong

Para Site presents two onsite solo exhibitions, Sounding Lines by Aki Sasamoto on the 22nd floor and Soft breath by Trevor Yeung on the tenth-floor annex. Para Site also presents Questscape, a solo exhibition of Yeung Siu Fong, at Art Basel Hong Kong.

Situated between sculpture and performance, Sounding Lines marks the first major solo presentation of Aki Sasamoto in Hong Kong and features a newly commissioned installation and performance in conversation with a recent moving-image work. 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 exhibition title 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.

Co-commissioned in partnership with Gasworks, London, and Aranya Art Center, Qinhuangdao, Trevor Yeung’s Soft breath takes the queer experiences that have shaped multi-species entanglements as a starting point and evokes the fluid interplay between night and day, public and private life, and hidden and visible desires. Central to the exhibition is an ambitious, large-scale replica of a leaning oak tree crucial to the life of a historic cruising ground popular in London since the nineteenth century. The artist employs light and scent as guiding elements to sculpt a temporary memory of a natural monument. Following the project’s journey from the first exhibition at Gasworks to its presentation at Para Site, Soft breath will see Yeung recast the project by bringing into conversation the rituals of “wishing trees” native to the New Territories in Hong Kong.

Throughout her practice that traverses paintings, installation, and performance, Yeung Siu Fong interrogates the limits of the human body as well as its connection to the subconscious. Questscape draws inspiration from her ongoing interest in live performance, where she regards her own body as a medium to embark on a quest for expressive possibilities, and as an extended scenery of the mind. The exhibition features a large-scale, commissioned installation and a series of recent paintings, in an experimental display that traces the physical impermanence and complexity of the body in order to evoke emotional introspective responses in the viewer. The presentation marks Para Site’s long-standing commitment at Art Basel Hong Kong to support and promote new directions pursued by emerging or underrepresented artists based in Hong Kong.