Spirituality is a broad, etymologically ever-evolving concept. Humans turn to it for a multitude of reasons: to seek divinity, to reach transcendence from within, to foster kinship. The contemporary market also adapts the concept, cleverly rebranding it as as โmindfulnessโ. Opening on 23 September at Rossi & Rossi Wong Chuk Hang, Out of Sight outlines interpretations and expressions of the intangible and elusive matter of spirituality. Through paintings, drawings and sculptures by a diverse array of artists, including Billy Apple, Siah Armajani, Janine Antoni, Fereydoun Ave, Konstantin Bessmertny, Matthew Brandt, Szelit Cheung, Gade, Abbas Kiarostami, Amal Lin, Norste, Shubigi Rao, Nicole Wong and Tom Wudl, the exhibition delves into the universal subject of spirituality, which transcends times, cultures and individuals, and presents a minuscule fraction of what spirituality means.
Those who probe into spirituality try to make sense of the world and define their own being either within or outside of it. For the vast meanings that spirituality prompts, the artists in Out of Sight set out with their own queries that ultimately produce intimate and idiosyncratic visual expressions.