Screened at a special pavilion in the lobby of SMBC East Tower in the Marunouchi district, AWT Video (November 4–8, 2026) presents a selection of single-channel moving image works by Japanese and international artists drawn from Art Week Tokyo’s participating galleries. Overseen by X Zhu-Nowell, the executive director and chief curator of the Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, this year’s program, “Your Travel Guide To . . . ,” features works by 10 Japanese and international artists. Cici Wu will be screening her work Belonging and Difference (2023).
This program of artist films and videos is presented at Anthology Film Archives, New York in conjunction with The Drawing Center’s current exhibition “Form, Shadow, Motion: Selections from the Burger Collection, Hong Kong”, opening on October 23, 2026 and on view until January 2027. The screening, which will take place on Wednesday, November 4 at 7PM, showcases a selection of artist pieces that extend the exhibition’s visual essay on shared historical, poetic, and philosophical concerns, with Hong Kong and New York as twin points of reference and Eastern thought and Western philosophy as its guiding frameworks.
“Form, Shadow, Motion: Selections from the Burger Collection, Hong Kong” is organized by Olivia Shao, Burger Collection & TOY Meets Art Curator.
Cici Wu UNFINISHED RETURN OF YU MAN HON 2019, 19 min, 16mm-to-DCP Tang Kwok Hin GRANDPA TANG 2017, 13 min, DCP Chan Hau Chun THE MEMORY OF A CICADA IS LONGER THAN ITS LIFE 2024, 12 min, DCP. Music and sound: Chui Chi Yin. Simon Liu PROCEDURES 2026, 17 min, 16mm-to-DCP
Misako and ROHsen is pleased to share a collaborative presentation in Tokyo, 𝘋𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘴𝘩. The exhibition connects artists who approach trash as form and medium, with a recognition that looking closely at the discarded is another means of looking at everything else. The exhibition will be on view from November 3–13, 2026, and will take place at Rose Gallery, Park Nova Jingumae, 2-33-5 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo.
Artists: Aracha Cholitgul, Bagus Pandega, Barry Beagen, Calvin Miceli-Nelson, CFGNY, C&K, dpgp78, Dusadee Huntrakul, Faisal Habibi, Felix Tao, Gary-Ross Pastrana, Hikari Ono, ikkibawiKrrr, Ken Kagami, Ken Sasaki, Lawrence Leaman, Lydo Le, Maruto Ardi, Maxime Cavajani, Motoyuki Daifu, MW, Nanami Hori, Nicole Coson, Phung-Tien Phan, Pimlico Arts JAPAN, RAB, Reina Sugihara, Richard Aldrich, Rose Rei Warner, Ryohei Usui, SIDE CORE, Sollee Kim, Syaiful Aulia Garibaldi, Taeyoon Kim, Tith Kanitha, Tsuji Takafumi, Vunkwan Tam, and Yuyan Wang.
Opening November 4 through December 6, 2026. XYZ Collective will host a collaborative exhibition during Art Week Tokyo, inviting Olivier Mignon as curator. The project takes the form of a two-person exhibition by Taro Masushio and Sophie Nys. New York–based, Japanese-born photographer Taro Masushio addresses themes of queer embodiment and the politics of the gaze, while Brussels-based sculptor Sophie Nys investigates the relationship between language and objects.
Published October 15, 2026, in The New York Times, by Keridwen Cornelius: “In addition, Empty Gallery of Hong Kong is presenting camera-less photographs by the artist Taro Masushio, who lives and works in New York City.
Masushio explained in a video interview that his work explored the question, “What is a queer image?” Masushio was inspired by screentones — transparent adhesive sheets covered with dots, lines, clouds or other patterns that lend shading and atmosphere to comic books in his native Japan.
He scanned several screentones into his computer, then superimposed and manipulated the images. Next, he turned the digital files into negatives and used special chemicals in the darkroom that give the resulting photos the silvery, sepia-toned sheen of a daguerreotype.
The abstract images, printed with text such as “homo” or the Japanese character for sexuality, are so reflective that they have an ever-shifting fluidity. And they are streaked with iridescent colors from the haphazard flow of darkroom chemicals.”
A group exhibition organised by Fondation Tschuess featuring Pia Rosa Dobrowitz, James T. Hong, Monika Schwitte, Alex Winterstein opens at 6pm on October 3 at Halmet, Zurich. The exhbition will run until November 1, 2026.
Published October 13, 2026, in The New York Times, by Dennis Zhou, a compilation of films from Hong Kong curators, artists and writers. Selected by: Ellen Pau, 65, video artist 32+4, Chan Hau Chun (2014) This documentary isn’t exactly a detective story, but it’s about the filmmaker uncovering the trauma between her parents, and also between her and her stepfather. Watching it, it’s easy to tell it was filmed in public housing, but you can’t tell which complex – it’s kind of a nonplace. They’re all in this one tiny apartment, fighting for space, survival, status and love. There’s a lot of very deep emotion involved, but Hau Chun can capture that without using much dialogue — it’s in how she plays with her camera, what visuals she captures, how she pauses. One scene is very memorable for me: Hau Chun’s’s father is crossing the street, and she’s filming from the other side of the road. And then printed on the screen is something like “How come I can’t cross that road to him, to stand beside him?” The gap between them becomes visible through this road. The things that you can see in the film are only one-tenth of the story, but through them, you can feel the whole story in your heart.
47 Canal announces its inaugural exhibition at the gallery’s new Chelsea location: Auld Lang Syne (prelude), a solo presentation of new work by New York–based artist Cici Wu (b. 1989, Beijing; raised in Hong Kong). This is Wu’s third solo show with the gallery, following her previous exhibitions Lantern Strike (2021) and Upon Leaving the White Dust (2018). Across sculptures, drawings, film, and installations, she attends to migratory aesthetics and to individual and collective memories that refract across space and time. Auld Lang Syne (prelude) extends Wu’s inquiries into the social, cultural, and political through the ephemeral medium of light. This new body of work suggests that the act of returning can intimately contour and shape unfinished histories and elucidate relations between past and present generations, between the material and the ephemeral. The exhibition is on view until November 7, 2026.
Doris Guo is participating in the 2026 Wuhan Biennale at Wuhan Art Museum, from October 1, 2026 through May 30, 2027. Curated by Paul Frèches, the biennale theme is Temporary Ferry, which takes inspiration from Wuhan’s unique cultural identity and historical significance as a major transit city.
Chan Hau Chun is participating in “I, etcetera” at Kunstverein Düsseldorf, Germany, organised by Gloria Hasnay. Other participating artists include Julie Becker, Oto Gillen, Robert Glück, Danae Io; Alex Kitnick, Doreen Mende and Fiona Vilmer. The exhibition will be on view from September 19, 2026 until January 17, 2027.
At the center of the group exhibition I, etcetera is an engagement with artistic subjectivity as always processual and relational. From this premise, the exhibition also turns its attention to the host institution itself, considering the ways in which it assumes and articulates a subjectivity of its own. It asks how narrative strategies and speculative propositions, operating across artistic practices and institutional(ized) processes alike, participate in producing the relations through which the self takes form.
Empty Gallery 很高興為大家帶來紐約藝術家徐梯善在畫廊舉行的第二個個展《屏膚》。自1980年代起,徐氏的藝術創作探索訊息科學改變我們具體化經驗中情感、接收及政治輪廓的複雜方式。持續改進創作的實踐以跟上此等湧現的現象,徐氏的作品介乎於繪畫和雕塑,採用方法如UV印刷、鑄造和數碼照片處理創造處於物理與虛擬之間界限的物件。《屏膚》延伸了先是使用於展覽《刪》的創作模式,繼而在第59屆威尼斯雙年展及紐約Miguel Abreu Gallery的展出中更臻完熟,進一步拓寬徐氏的探究範疇以涵蓋生物政治學的擴展場域和數碼監控國家。
由裝置在畫廊19樓空間的六幅新畫作及一個標誌性雕塑組成,展覽《屏膚》中作品的高清表象躍動著一種安靜的威脅感。在作品如〈camera-screen-skin〉和〈double-breath 1〉中定義創作的整體光學性,曾首度在徐氏1980年代的作品中表現為擺動的掃描線(當時它們指向的是一種在屏幕虛幻空間中帶催眠性或暈眩感的吸併) ,但現已逐漸變形為無處不在的點與網孔。這些扭曲的地勢圖表現出一種降服於網絡或被其吞噬的感覺,而這個網絡在其力量與規模上皆接近迷異的幻覺。在這些圖案中疊蓋的是具像影像元素(身體部份的碎片,肉質褶皺和神秘小孔),它們的匿名性似乎指向把獨立主體簡約為可量化和可控數據的抽象單位這簡化過程。以有色矽膠形塑的未分化肉身物質,從這些表面冒出和鑽入,又或從當中滲出。這些元素訴說著物質軀體在一個它開始顯得日益過時的時代中頑固的存在。在這個時代中它只能以黏稠固態現身,被粒子化卻不能完全分解進符號資本的液態流。作為一個整體,這些作品似乎訴說著一種糾纏,一種來自當代主體置身在一個無處不在、又無處可尋、看不見但摸得到的網絡中,其神經生物學性的糾纏。這些作品表達著一種世俗的反烏托邦主義,在當中消費和愉悅(實際上,經驗自身的基礎)與監視、身體監管和更微妙的生物政治控制形式,皆是密不可分。它們在對身體監控和控制的關注這層面上,可回溯徐氏在1980年代末的作品,當中首次明確地表達了科技系統與官僚系統的交結。
展覽的重點作品〈phone-breath-bed 3〉是早前於第 59 屆威尼斯雙年展中展出的一系列雕塑作品的第三件。這件混雜結構作品結合醫院病床、個人計算設備和生命維持系統的元素,可說是徐氏對軀體與設備裝置之間的交接最深沉的探索。一個帶輪的金屬支架上躺著一具透明聚碳酸酯軀體,並用上矽膠鑄件和類似觸控屏幕的印刷面作點綴。在作品核心的概念中,是把醫療產業與功利主義考量連接到現代UI/UX設計中優化界面的深層邏輯。〈phone-breath-bed 3〉作品中的人臉(能聯想到死亡面具)與暴露的體腔召喚來閾限空間,在當中軀體創傷和身體衰退的分雜效應折疊進及強化了屏幕吸併的世界——數據中心與停屍房之間那不自在的交叉點。
在一個歷史性的時刻(1980年代)當徐氏許多藝術同行仍在匆忙追趕舊有影像循環系統影響之時,他對其時剛出現的數碼領域所會帶來的結果獨度的關注(不是對所謂新媒體單純的拜物主義,而是考慮到它對人類經驗不斷變化本質的多方面暗示)早已冠其先見之譽。《屏膚》重整這脈絡的探索,冀與科技樂觀主義的脈衝處於最低潮的時刻產生共鳴。在這樣的一個時刻,數碼民主曾被淹沒的威權主義充分顯現,但當中主體過於糾結,過度消化和量化,以致無法看清外界。有一種幾乎是無意識的擺盪,在網絡屏幕誘人的流暢性與有形軀殻多餘的意識之間,越過其自身淘汰而頑固地繼續存在。徐氏的創作或許比任何其他在世的藝術家都更清楚地表達出物件(或許甚至是物質本身)當從一個壓倒性消極政體虛擬地深陷進一種官僚主義控制論而要面對自身糾結之時所處於的這種不穩定和矛盾的狀態。但也許,甚至比這更重要的是,徐氏的創作代表了一種持續不斷卻永遠不會完成的嘗試,試圖理解和規劃當前經驗的本體。然而,不是從一個假構的全知定位或透過一種分析方法的研究手段來實踐,而是作為一種對內在的掌握,在液態流動和身體,數據,與屏幕之間。