ROLE: Project Director and Exhibition Producer.

 

The exhibition, ‘Laughing with a Mouth Full of Blood’ used the unique heritage building of the Hong Kong Museum of Medical Sciences as a temporary gallery.  The use of this Museum was a part of Future Industries’ goal to expand the “white cube” space, in turn, introduce new possibilities for showing art in Hong Kong.  The search for a space to exhibit the paintings which would work as part of the show rather then outside the show was a conscious one and the Museum of Medical Sciences was a perfect fit. Originally, the museum was a bacteriological institute, a place where the human body was explored and studied; just so, Simon Birch explored and studied the human body through the intricacy of his paintings, paintings which challenge the tendency of modern science to treat the human body as an abstraction.