Myth Makers—Spectrosynthesis III draws inspiration from artists addressing "queer mythologies,"who highlight same-sex love/desire and gender fluidity as found in ancient belief systems andtraditions in Asia. Expanding on the Spectrosynthesis exhibition series from Taipei and Bangkok, this iteration in Hong Kong is one of the first major survey exhibitions on LGBTQ+ perspectives in HongKong, featuring more than 100 artworks by over 60 artists in Asia and its diasporas, with one third of the works loaned from Sunpride's collection.
Myth Makers unfolds through three distinctive chapters and encompasses newly produced artworksand historical works from the 1940s to the 1990s. In bringing together such a plethora of artisticperspectives and vocabularies, the exhibition endeavours to present a multiplicity of conversations,representations, and anti-representations of stories, individuals and communities. While the bulk ofthe exhibition focuses on living artists, some visionary and transformative figures of the past will alsobe underscored, including artists who lived in times when present day LGBTQ+ identifications werenot possible.
Myth Makers also includes a special collaboration with Queer Reads Library. This involves, amongothers, two interventions in the Artists' Book Library: Can't Get You Out of My Head: From Kary to Hiram, a display of archival/personal ephemera and artworks co-curated by Kary Kwok and QueerReads Library; and Queer Reads Library_Corner, with over thirty new books and zines inspired by Myth Makers.
Tai Kwun is a not-for-profit art space and a centre for heritage and arts in Dedicated to encouraging conversations between the wider public and contemporary art, Tai Kwun Contemporary offers events such as Art After Hours and Family Day, as well as public screenings and workshops. Its extensive programmes include Summer Institute: an annual seminar and lecture series targeting tertiary-level students from Hong Kong and Asia, as well as Booked: Hong Kong Art Book Fair, an annual art book festival that welcomes exhibitors from around the world and features art and artists’ books, photobooks, critical and theoretical as well as experimental writing, art magazines, zines, related ephemera and more.
