Algorithms of Longing Upcoming Jan 14 – Feb 27, 2025 Hong Kong What’s more mystifying and seductive than encountering an other that feels familiar? Pace is pleased to present Algorithms of Longing, a group exhibition at its Hong Kong gallery charting complex ideas, desires, and resonances in the Asian diaspora, situated in conversation with works that speak to post-Socialist and post-human longings. On view from January 14 to February 27, 2025, this focused presentation, organized by Pace’s Curatorial Director Xin Wang with support from the gallery’s President of Greater China Evelyn Lin, will bring together works by Amanda Ba, Ching Ho Cheng, Oscar yi Hou, Yifan Jiang, Lawrence Lek, Jarod Lew, Paulina Olowska, and Stipan Tadić. Read More Featuring seven artists outside Pace’s program, this exhibition reflects the gallery’s collaborative ethos, as well as its ongoing efforts to highlight new voices in its exhibitions around the world.Activating the unique history and cosmopolitan culture of Hong Kong, Algorithms of Longing speaks to the collective familiarity of diasporic experiences and the distinct cosmos of experience and imagination embedded in each artist’s practice. In her curatorial statement, Wang explains that she aims to bring together “a robust and refreshing grouping of artists whose curiosity towards certain aspects of otherness—be it cultural, technological, post-Socialist or post-Human—expand the possibilities of knowledge for both self and the world. To revisit time as place and fantasy as home-coming.”The exhibition will be accompanied by a curated selection of publications—available to read in the gallery—that illuminates its rich contexts. Read More About the Artists Oscar yi Hou, Self-portrait (26), aka: yat ming, 2024, oil on canvas, 54" × 36" × 1-1/4" (137.2 cm × 91.4 cm × 3.2 cm) Learn More Oscar yi HouOscar yi Hou, who presented his first institutional solo exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum in New York in 2022–23, will debut a new work titled Self-portrait (26), aka: yat ming (2024), along with another recent painting titled To look, aka: Realest Blue (2024). Close modal View Previous View Next Carousel slide 0 Carousel slide 1 Oscar yi Hou Self-portrait (26), aka: yat ming 2024 oil on canvas 54" × 36" × 1-1/4" (137.2 cm × 91.4 cm × 3.2 cm) Inquire How can we reach you? First Name* Last Name* Email* Phone Inquiry Message Have you purchased from Pace before?* Yes No Submit Inquiry Or go back Oscar yi Hou, To look, aka: Realest Blue, 2024, oil, gouache, and colored pencil on canvas, 70" × 54" × 1-1/16" (177.8 cm × 137.2 cm × 2.7 cm) Liverpool-born and New York-based, Hou creates portraits of himself and other queer, Asian, diasporic artists, and his works are often characterized by a unique syntax of symbols, references, and emotional intimacy. Replete with queer iconography and references to poetry, East Asian history and visual culture, as well as American popular culture, Hou’s paintings conjure narratives that serve to represent and mystify their subjects—himself included. Amanda Ba, Resurrection Site, 2024, oil on canvas, 72" × 60" × 1-1/4" (182.9 cm × 152.4 cm × 3.2 cm) Learn More Amanda BaBorn in Ohio to first generation Chinese American parents, Amanda Ba spent the first five years of her life with her grandparents in Hefei, China. Her recent paintings—in which monumental nude figures, often in the artist’s own image, inhabit uncanny interiors and evocative urban environments—combine realism and fantasy to explore issues of desire and sexuality, capitalism and nationalism, and diasporic memory through lenses of queer and post-colonial thinking. Resurrection Site (2024), Ba’s new painting in Algorithms of Longing, takes Andrea Mantegna’s famously foreshortened composition Lamentation of Christ (1480) as a point of departure and provocation. In Resurrection Site, the artist’s own body is laid in the rubble of a construction site, monumental yet vulnerable to the relentless cycles of urban sprawl and decay. Close modal View Previous View Next Carousel slide 0 Carousel slide 1 Amanda Ba Resurrection Site 2024 oil on canvas 72" × 60" × 1-1/4" (182.9 cm × 152.4 cm × 3.2 cm) Inquire How can we reach you? First Name* Last Name* Email* Phone Inquiry Message Have you purchased from Pace before?* Yes No Submit Inquiry Or go back Yifan Jiang, Harvest, 2024, oil on canvas, 96" × 72" × 1-3/8" (243.8 cm × 182.9 cm × 3.5 cm) Learn More Yifan JiangOffering a drastically different take on our cultural and emotional ties to the land, Yifan Jiang’s new painting Harvest (2024) will be the largest canvas in the exhibition. In her practice spanning painting, sculpture, animation, and performance, the artist explores intersections between scientific, psychological, and magical subjects. Jiang’s paintings possess a surrealistic, futuristic sensibility, proposing new ways of seeing the world around us and understanding our relationship to it. In Harvest, back-lit farmers reap supernaturally oversized produce under an iridescent nebula, inviting associations with Vincent van Gogh’s The Red Vineyards near Arles (1888), agrarian dreamcore/sci-fi, the Great Leap Forward, and internet memes of the obligatory urge of Chinese migrants and expats to grow food wherever they are. Close modal View Previous View Next Carousel slide 0 Carousel slide 1 Yifan Jiang Harvest 2024 oil on canvas 96" × 72" × 1-3/8" (243.8 cm × 182.9 cm × 3.5 cm) Inquire How can we reach you? First Name* Last Name* Email* Phone Inquiry Message Have you purchased from Pace before?* Yes No Submit Inquiry Or go back Ching Ho Cheng, Untitled (Wood grain series), 1975, gouache on rag paper, 27" × 9" (68.6 cm × 22.9 cm) Learn More Ching Ho ChengChing Ho Cheng was born in Havana, Cuba in 1946 to a Chinese diplomat family. He studied at the Cooper Union in New York City, where he would become a member of the postwar downtown avant-garde scene, immersing himself in the teachings of Taoism as well as Tibetan art, Hopi and Navajo artifacts, and the work of Hieronymus Bosch. He rose to prominence in the 1960s with his psychedelic abstractions, the majority of which are part of institutional collections in the US, including the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Brooklyn Museum in New York, the Cleveland Museum of Art in Ohio, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.Cheng’s composition Untitled (Wood grain series), inspired by the wooden floors in his studio at the storied Chelsea Hotel in New York, will be the historical work that anchors Algorithms of Longing. The artist recalled that “in the peeling, crumbling, cracked walls of my studio, there is a lunar landscape. I travel through the wood grains of my floorboards.” In 2026, he will be the subject of a major solo retrospective titled Ching Ho Cheng: The Light Will Continue at the Addison Gallery of American Art at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, accompanied by a catalogue co-published by the Addison Gallery and the nonprofit Visual AIDS. Close modal View Previous View Next Carousel slide 0 Carousel slide 1 Ching Ho Cheng Untitled (Wood grain series) 1975 gouache on rag paper 27" × 9" (68.6 cm × 22.9 cm) Inquire How can we reach you? First Name* Last Name* Email* Phone Inquiry Message Have you purchased from Pace before?* Yes No Submit Inquiry Or go back Jarod Lew, Dislocation (Henry and Me), 2023, archival pigment print, 36" × 45" (91.4 cm × 114.3 cm), each panel, 36" × 135" (91.4 cm × 342.9 cm), overall Learn More Close modal View Previous View Next Carousel slide 0 Carousel slide 1 Jarod Lew Dislocation (Henry and Me) 2023 archival pigment print 36" × 45" (91.4 cm × 114.3 cm), each panel, 36" × 135" (91.4 cm × 342.9 cm), overall Inquire How can we reach you? First Name* Last Name* Email* Phone Inquiry Message Have you purchased from Pace before?* Yes No Submit Inquiry Or go back Jarod LewArtist Jarod Lew, who will mount a solo show at the University of Michigan Museum of Art in spring 2025, will present Dislocation (Henry and Me) (2023)—a photo triptych from his recent series Long Time No See, From Somewhere Far Away—in the upcoming group exhibition at Pace in Hong Kong. Using photography and video to explore intergenerational diasporic loss, displacement, and post-memory, Lew said that his curiosity and yearning for a semblance of aesthetic authenticity in old Hong Kong and Chinese films as an Asian American “underscore the realities of my estrangement within the fantasies I create.” Read More Lawrence Lek, Guanyin (Confessions of a Former Carebot), 2024, single-channel video with stereo sound, 10m 25s Learn More Close modal View Previous View Next Carousel slide 0 Carousel slide 1 Carousel slide 2 Lawrence Lek Guanyin (Confessions of a Former Carebot) 2024 single-channel video with stereo sound 10m 25s Inquire How can we reach you? First Name* Last Name* Email* Phone Inquiry Message Have you purchased from Pace before?* Yes No Submit Inquiry Or go back Lawrence LekArtist Lawrence Lek’s single-channel video Guanyin (Confessions of a Former Carebot) (2024), part of a multimedia commission by Frieze London in 2024 that also includes sculptures and an interactive game, brings a wry yet tender techno-dystopian dimension to Algorithms of Longing. In his animated video work named after the Buddhist goddess of mercy, a cyborg therapist embarks on a mission to save other artificially intelligent entities from destruction. Lek’s short film Empty Rider—originally commissioned for the 2024 Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement at the Centre d'Art Contemporain in Geneva—will have its world premiere in the Tiger Shorts Award program at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in January 2025, and, in June 2025, he will present a solo exhibition at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. Read More Stipan Tadić, Aleja Pomoraca (Alley of Sailors), 2020-2024, oil on board, 20" × 38" (50.8 cm × 96.5 cm) Learn More Close modal View Previous View Next Carousel slide 0 Carousel slide 1 Stipan Tadić Aleja Pomoraca (Alley of Sailors) 2020-2024 oil on board 20" × 38" (50.8 cm × 96.5 cm) Inquire How can we reach you? First Name* Last Name* Email* Phone Inquiry Message Have you purchased from Pace before?* Yes No Submit Inquiry Or go back Stipan TadićStipan Tadić’s painting Aleja Pomoraca (Alley of Sailors) (2020–24) draws on Croatian folk art in its depictions of Brutalist residential buildings in the artist’s hometown Zagreb—these buildings are just as recognizable and prevalent in northern Chinese cities. A small, oval-shaped aperture in the upper left corner of the composition reveals a street scene in New York City, the artist’s home in diaspora, as if, Tadić states, to reconcile reality and nostalgia “as a way to engage with my different identities.” Read More Paulina Olowska, Prospekt Niezalezhnosti, 2018, oil and acrylic on canvas, 86-5/8" × 70-7/8" (220 cm × 180 cm) Learn More Paulina OlowskaUnmistakable Soviet-era architecture with a distinct mosaic facade looms in the background in Olowska’s 2018 painting Prospekt Niezalezhnosti, whose central characters are a mother and child appropriated from a Yves Saint Laurent campaign. This anachronistic Socialist Realist scene epitomizes the artist’s abiding interest in consumption and desire through the lenses of socialism, fashion, and nostalgia. Like Tadić, Olowska is interested in “processing things that I find interesting or that have been omitted in the official discourse because they’re classified as unimportant.” Close modal Paulina Olowska Prospekt Niezalezhnosti 2018 oil and acrylic on canvas 86-5/8" × 70-7/8" (220 cm × 180 cm) Paulina Ołowska Inquire How can we reach you? First Name* Last Name* Email* Phone Inquiry Message Have you purchased from Pace before?* Yes No Submit Inquiry Or go back EXHIBITION DETAILSAlgorithms of LongingJan 14 – Feb 27, 2025OPENING RECEPTIONJan 14, 20256 – 8 PMAbove: Yifan Jiang, Harvest, 2024 © Yifan Jiang GALLERY12/F, H Queen's80 Queen's Road CentralHong Kong PressPress Release CONNECT (opens in a new window) @pacegallery Journal View All Films Mark Rothko and Lee Ufan: Beyond the Canvas and Into Space Jan 03, 2025 Films Lawrence Weiner on Making a Specific Object Without a Specific Form Dec 17, 2024 News Storm King Art Center Announces Sonia Gomes Solo Show, Acquisitions by Arlene Shechet and Lee Ufan Dec 10, 2024 Pace Publishing Loie Hollowell: Overview Effect Dec 06, 2024 Overview About the Artists Exhibition Details Journal