Year

Project

Garden of Six Seasons

Client

Para Site

Hong Kong

Collaborator

  • Wkshps

Type

  • Exhibition
  • Identity
  • Motion
  • Print
  • Sound

Case study

Garden of Six Seasons is a fever dream. Bodies, histories, cultures, and technologies get tangled up together; the world becomes weird, perverse, sexual, and difficult to separate into respectable categories.

We paired Emmanuel Besse’s Signal Compressed with James Edmondson’s Digestive. They have similar proportions and very different dispositions. Signal is blunt and straightforward. Digestive has more elaborate needs. Paired with matching Chinese typefaces, then sliced in half, they produce letters that seem to belong to two incompatible systems at once.

The images have even less personal space. Artworks and images from elsewhere are pressed directly against each other, allowed to rub, intrude, flirt, contaminate. A meeting between two images can begin to look like a third thing, or like something one of them is doing to the other.

Wordmark
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Wordmark
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Promotional video
Installation view (photo: Samson Cheung Choi Sang 張才生)
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Installation view (photo: Samson Cheung Choi Sang 張才生)
Typography
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Typography
Brochure
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Brochure