What if future never comes
Opening Party | Wednesday 19th March from 6-9pm
Exhibition Times | 21-23, 28-30 March 2025, Friday to Sunday, 12-4.30pm
Performance Day | Saturday 22nd March from 12-4.30pm
Zine Launch & Spoken Text Party | Sunday 30th March from 2-4pm
‘The apocalypse is not something which is coming. The apocalypse has arrived in major portions of the planet and it’s only because we live within a bubble of incredible privilege and social insulation that we still have the luxury of anticipating the apocalypse.’
― Terence McKenna
We are living in the apocalypse, we’re exposed to life in hell as the results of our privileged, easy life; the burden of knowing we live with when many lives are suffering to make ours comfortable. The world has seen the multiple world-ending dangers for decades, and we’re forced to live on, not knowing when the last tomorrow will come.
This is an archaeology of the present, peeling back the layers of our collective condition. The fragility of empires, the ghosts in the machine, the cold sterility of abandoned boardrooms—all sites of excavation. In the shadows of past ambition, we find the contours of a different way of being. Art becomes the means of haunting, of reanimating, of reimagining. This is survival, via forging meaning in the ruins.
The artists gathered by Hidden Keileon will go through a month of creative period in response to the theme of Apocalyptic Yesterday: geopolitical conflicts, global resources flow, mycelial inspired organising and working in a world where future is hard to imagine.
The exhibition uncovers the layers of this apocalyptic reality, exploring themes of decay, disillusionment and the human condition in the face of impending doom. A world perpetually teetering on the brink of collapse. It’s as if the apocalypse has already arrived, masked by the illusion of progress and prosperity.
We re-centre ourselves through collective creating and sharing, local organising, reconnecting with our immediate surrounding and finding solidarity in the despair of worldly burden. May we all find solace through the gatherings, regain agency of change and engage in culture making.
Exhibiting artists: Aiden Kwong, Angela Wai Nok Hui, Anne Verheij, Bettina Fung, Bonnie Chan, Deacon Lui, Ghost Chan, Iris Chan, Jane Lam, Jeffrey Choy, John Chan 元樟, Jon Chew, Sandra Lam and Vinna Law
Apocalyptic Yesterday runs from 21-23, 28-30 March 2025 at Shaftesbury Avenue, open Friday to Sunday, 12-4.30pm.
Free drop-in