2026-02-07 . . .

La Moustache: A Poet's Walkthrough

Aristilde Kirby

Saturday, February 7
3 pm to 4:30 pm

19/F Grand Marine Centre
3 Yue Fung Street
Aberdeen, Hong Kong

We invite you to join us for a special exhibition walkthrough with visiting poet Aristilde Kirby. In this program, we will engage in a casual and open dialogue with Kirby about the poetic and conceptual underpinnings of La Moustache curated by Jordan Stein. After the gallery tour, we will take a coastal walk to the nearby Graveyard of Gods. Here, over 2,000 predominantly Buddhist statues have been left behind as it is considered bad luck to dispose of them. Our hope is to engage this space as a site of unexpected encounters and mysticism, in tandem with the spirit of our exhibition.

Please register for this program by emailing contact(at)emptygallery.com or Instagram direct message. We will cap registrations at 15 people. Visitors are encouraged to wear comfortable shoes for the ~20 minute walk from the gallery to the bay.

Aristilde Kirby (b. 1991, she / they, Bronx, NY) is a poet & performance artist responsible for the book Daisy & Catherine² (Auric Press, 2022). She has also written the chapbooks Sonnet Infinitesimal / Material Girl (Best American Experimental Writing 2020), Daisy & Catherine (Belladonna, 2017), Daria Ukiyo-e (Creative Writing Department, 2025) & the forthcoming Flowerviolence: 12 Tetractyses (Tilted House, 2026). She has performed at Basilica Soundscape, Lyles & King, The Poetry Project, Smack Mellon, AIR Gallery, Triple Canopy & the Volksbuhne for Texte Zur Kunst, amongst others. She was a finalist for Wendy’s Subway’s Carolyn Bush Award. Recent publications are in Poets.org, Ethics, Keith LLC, & Blue Bag Press. She helps to edit the poetry section for Apogee Magazine, as well as Abobo Zine, a publication dedicated to raising funds for abortion via creative writing. She has her degrees & she’s not particularly proud of them. She’s working on two books inspired by math. You can call her Aris, like ‘Paris’ without the P.

La Moustache will be on view through Saturday, February 14.


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