Dates: 21 March – 23 May 2026
Venue: Current Plans, Spring Workshop at 3F, Remex Centre, 42 Wong Chuk Hang Road, Wong Chuk Hang, Hong Kong
Opening Event
Date: 21 March 2026
Time: 4:00pm – 8:00pm
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Imagine a Dead Blue Whale Inside the Pocket of a Giant
Group show at Current Plans, Hong Kong
Artists: Tap Chan, Adele Dipasquale, Roberto Fassone, Adam Harrison, Ocean Leung, Simon Liu, Michela de Mattei, Sara Ravelli
Curated by Giulia Pollicita and Eunice Tsang
Imagine a Dead Blue Whale Inside the Pocket of a Giant is a group exhibition bringing together eight artists based between Hong Kong and Italy. The exhibition presents newly commissioned works alongside pieces never previously exhibited, as well as works shown for the first time in Asia within an institutional context.
When speech is mistranslated, restricted, or simply fails, what other alphabets remain? Between Italy and Hong Kong—where languages, histories, and governing systems diverge—our exhibition proposes play as a shared, subversive alphabet.
Neither innocent nor trivial, play here becomes a strategic act. The artists turn to games, glitches, and improvised rules to articulate what cannot be said. Within their worlds, prevailing rules are suspended, roles dissolve, and hierarchies are reconfigured. Between docility and insubordination, play emerges as a magical gesture: an agent of both disorder and reorder.
Approaching the notion of play from diverse conceptual, discursive, and operational perspectives, the exhibition foregrounds both the emancipatory potential and the political implications of playing. The exhibition traces points of convergence between artistic, poetic, and ludic practices in their shared capacity to generate alternative worlds. Within these worlds, prevailing socio-cultural rules are temporarily suspended and replaced by new ones; established roles and hierarchies are dissolved and reconfigured according to different logics. This constructed state becomes a parallel space to reality—a site in which new forms of freedom and expressive agency can be tested, negotiated, and imagined.
The title is drawn from a poetic installation by artist Roberto Fassone, which enacts the creation of possible worlds through language and imagination—activated through art and sustained through the complicity of the viewer. The works exist fully only through the implicit acceptance of a contract between artist and audience.
The title thus encapsulates a condition of imaginative and paradoxical surreality—one that can be activated only through poetic intervention and artistic gesture. Similarly, the exhibition seeks to critically interrogate existing systems and rules in order to reimagine governing power structures.
The event is part of Giulia Pollicita’s research project Italy–Hong Kong Express.
