Inverted Hong Kong - Exhibition

Representing Hong Kong at the Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism 2019, Géraldine Borio examined the theme of ‘The Collective’ through the lens of her research on the city’s liminal spaces.

Hong Kong’s interstitial network of back lanes within the city’s dense urban fabric are ambiguous buffer zones, which oscillate between the classical binary opposition of public/private, legal / illegal, inside / outside. Not planned as such, they are not assigned to particular functions or programs, and are often ignored by the city’s officials. However, these in-between territories are open to multiple interpretations and offer a momentary space for the city’s inhabitants to appropriate.

Inverted Hong Kong is a site-specific installation that speculates on the shifting boundaries between inside and outside. The audience is engaged and challenged by a representation of a city as a system of thresholds where the domestic and the collective overlap.

Inverted Hong Kong was supported by the Research Grant for the Support of Arts by The Hong Kong Arts Development Council (HKADC), Hong Kong.