Current Mobile M+ exhibition: 'You.' - Lee Kit

Co-presented by M+, West Kowloon Cultural District and Hong Kong Arts Development Council, ‘You.’ is a continuation of Lee Kit’s solo exhibition ‘You (you).’ at the 55th Venice Biennale last year. Co-curated by Lars Nittve and Yung Ma from M+, ‘You.’ is also the sixth exhibition in the Mobile M+ series.

Taking an expansive approach in reconfiguring previously explored themes and forms, ‘You.’ fuses aspects of the personal, the social and the political within Lee Kit’s continuous interest in the realm of the everyday. The heritage site of the Cattle Depot Artist Village, which echoes the architectural details of the Hong Kong Pavilion in Venice, is transformed by a series of large-scale spatial interventions to provide frameworks in juxtaposing new commissions with installations from ‘You (you).’.

‘You.’ employs the same seemingly relaxed aesthetic of Lee Kit’s recent sparse-yet-intimate installations, which focus on contrasts between different materials, textures and colours to convey a particular tone. With a meticulous precision that recalls a painter’s sensitivity towards composition, various commonplace objects are positioned alongside moving images, sounds, lighting, found images and paintings as emotive triggers, suggesting traces of ambiguous narratives.

The exhibition also introduces the latest development of Lee’s ever-evolving practice, for which volume and scale have become integral elements in illustrating a more heavily charged response to that which surrounds us.