Wish You Were Here: Curated by Jie Xia
Ben Brown Fine Arts is pleased to present Wish You Were Here, an exhibition curated by New York-based curator, art advisor, and independent scholar Jie Xia. On view at Ben Brown Fine Arts Hong Kong, the exhibition evokes the intoxicating pull of summer: the heat, the haze, and the promise of escape. Featuring works by leading postwar and contemporary artists — drawn from the gallery’s programme and beyond — the exhibition explores the iconography of travel, the sea, and the rituals of seasonal escape, approached with varying degrees of meditation, longing, and nostalgia.
This seminal exhibition features the work of Lucas Arruda, Milton Avery, Miquel Barceló, Alejandro Cardenas, Tseng Kwong Chi, Loie Hollowell, Hon Chi-Fun, Vik Muniz, Nabil Nahas, José Parlá, Hilary Pecis, Enoc Perez, Gerhard Richter, Ena Swansea and Christine Ay Tjoe.
Wish You Were Here is a meditation on how we construct and consume paradise – through postcards, advertisements, snapshots, and stylised memories. The beach is explored as a mirage of freedom, mythologised in oil paint, photography, and glossy idealism.
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