In today\u2019s climate of political unrest, how does the art world navigate instability across regions?<\/p>\n
The exhibition\u2019s tongue-in-cheek title, \u201cCertainly\u201d, is inspired by American artist-composer La Monte Young\u2019s 1960 \u201cscore\u201d, a conceptual art piece titled Composition 1960 #10<\/em> that reads: \u201cDraw a straight line and follow it.\u201d<\/p>\n Young\u2019s was an \u201cevent score\u201d, a type of performance art, inspired by the Fluxus artistic movement\u2019s blending of mediums, in which the artist would write a sentence and the idea or realisation of that sentence is the artwork, explains Tobias Berger, co-founder and curatorial director of the new cultural think tank Serakai.<\/p>\n \u201cYou can never draw a straight line [without aid]. It\u2019s impossible,\u201d he says. \u201cAnd so, it is about opportunity; it\u2019s about uncertainty; it\u2019s about going from one place to another and taking chances.\u201d<\/p>\n This is Berger\u2019s first major exhibition in Hong Kong since he left his former post as Tai Kwun\u2019s head of art in 2022, and he and the curatorial team at Gold brought in 50 works from 11 artists across cultures, mediums and career stages. The curatorial focus is \u201cmuch more open\u201d than when he was employed in public institutions such as Hong Kong\u2019s M+ museum, where \u201cwe knew exactly what we had to deliver\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n![\"La](\"https:\/\/img.i-scmp.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/fit=contain,width=1024,format=auto\/sites\/default\/files\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/03\/27\/78384131-d963-414c-833b-bc36d41e0b65_69e4c7c4.jpg\" "\\"La")
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