/ SomoS Arts, Berlin, 2025
In his first solo exhibition in Europe, Hong Kong artist Kurt Yau Kwok Keung explores themes of migration, memory, and displacement through video, drawing, sculpture and found objects. Referencing his family’s migration history and Hong Kong’s complex political past, Yau weaves personal and collective narratives into poetic gestures of survival.
From plastic birds and edible bricks to fireworks layered over historical trauma, his works evoke the tension between freedom and confinement, nostalgia and rupture. Light appears again and again - through slits in concrete, glowing from the other side - as both a promise and illusion.
By reconfiguring pop culture, state history, and inherited memory, A Kindred Spirit invites viewers to consider: how do we carry the impact of borders - visible or invisible - and still move forward?
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From plastic birds and edible bricks to fireworks layered over historical trauma, his works evoke the tension between freedom and confinement, nostalgia and rupture. Light appears again and again - through slits in concrete, glowing from the other side - as both a promise and illusion.
By reconfiguring pop culture, state history, and inherited memory, A Kindred Spirit invites viewers to consider: how do we carry the impact of borders - visible or invisible - and still move forward?
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