Ordinary Failures
duo exhibition with Sophia Yuet See
5-9 September 2025 @ Rooftop, Sai Ying Pun, Hong Kong
A collaborative exhibition that begins with attending to the ruins of modernity that we are submerged in every day. Materials and spaces that have lost or deviated from their intended functions don’t necessarily disappear; they become out of focus, haunting the everyday. As they transform into ruins, they take on their own paths, roots, spirits - their invisibility structured by the chaos, urgency, and speed of urban life. By the time we re-encounter them, their origins are often indeterminable and can only be speculated. In this exhibition, we explore the materiality of these slippages, the afterlives of objects, what persists when left unattended, sensing what is left behind, and tracing through crevices, dusts, mold, wrinkles...
@ordinary_failures
half door, infilled with casted tiles on roof’s fallen tiles.
dusts.hidden tilesplastic beads, found glass window pane, dates, metal wire.
16mm positive film, LED lights.
metal wires, pomelo skin, pomelo seeds.dates, chipped found woodboard
dates on roof
dates, found crater remainssoup leftover printmaking
falling waterfound styrofoam ball, pomelo piece with coral fossil
the city always dripping water
when walking on street
Ordinary Failures began with the site of a Hong Kong rooftop; a layer of the city sliced open, the skyline’s reflection fractured across a mirrored building like a filmstrip skipping a frame. The site exists in a suspended space of transition between the panorama of a facade that reflects the unseen side, between the tramline and the sea. Scattered on the rooftop were fragments of discarded objects—a styrofoam ball, broken toilet, construction remnants, wooden boards—whose origins and intended uses we could only speculate, leading us down a hole of not-knowing.
beads, flower wraps, orchid clip
orchid clips, egg nest pad
dices, wood plank, pin, tube, soap, wax
a mandarin sewed inside-out.
behind the scene ordinary failures...