
Para Site is delighted to present the group exhibition Fanatic Heart from 10 December 2022 to 26 February 2023, opening reception 9 December 2022, 6–8pm. Seemingly an elixir of pop cultural offerings that alleviates us from the hardships of daily life, Fanatic Heart prompts the audience to realise the potent political power behind obsessive, fanatical desires and employ them to make sense of the radical world we live in.
Organised to embrace and expand the definition of fandom culture, the exhibition invites fifteen artists from Hong Kong, Japan, mainland China, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand, and Vietnam to materialise the relationship between fandom and socio-political happenings that have taken place in Southeast and East Asia. Making eclectic references to celebrity worship, drag, postcolonial and post-socialist identities, social movements, religion, and technological advances, the artists investigate desire and affect to decipher the cultural unconscious of contemporary social landscapes.
The participating artists are: Haneyl Choi, BuBu de la Madeleine, Guhit Kulay (Maria Christina Castillo Anire, Cristina Balao-as Cayat, Jonalyn Macalalad Molina, and Marilyn Santiago Lopez), Ho Tzu Nyen, Yuree Kensaku, Dew Kim, Lu Yang, Green Mok, Yasumasa Morimura, Diane Severin Nguyen, Yoshiko Shimada, and Sin Wai Kin, seven of whom are presenting all-new commissions. The exhibition is curated by Cusson Cheng.
Established in 1996 by seven Hong Kong artists, Para Site began as the city’s first artist-run exhibition space and has since developed into an internationally networked hub for contemporary art.

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