GROUP EXHIBITION

The exhibition draws inspiration from Tehching Hsieh’s seminal work, One Year Performance 1978-1979, where Hsieh confined himself within a self-constructed cage for an entire year, abstaining from conversation, reading, writing, listening to the radio, or watching TV. By reducing his daily activities to the barest minimum of breathing and eating, Hsieh turned ‘life’ and ‘time’ into both the medium and subject of his work.

Building on this idea, Everyday Practices brings together artworks by diverse artists across different generations and geographies in Asia, emphasising the themes of ‘everyday’, ‘repetition’, and ‘endurance’. These artworks reveal how daily routines and repetitive actions can become powerful forms of expression and resilience, inviting viewers to reflect on the nature of everyday lived experiences and the collective strength found in individual actions.

The exhibition poses the question: ‘In the face of life’s challenges, how do we go on going on?’.