“Spectres in Heaven” brings together Liao Jiaming’s recent works across a range of artistic forms and methodologies, engaging themes such as artificial intelligence, queer culture, bodily discipline, and the histories of Hong Kong. The artist turns toward the unresolved fragments of the past, while also orienting toward indeterminate technological futures. Within this temporal disjunction, the works rearticulate bodily imaginaries that have been lost or remain unrealized.

The exhibition foregrounds a central concern: the irreducible tension between collectivity and individuality. Across the works, control and empowerment unfold in ambivalent relation. Through the artist’s lived trajectories and contradictions, these relations form an entangled yet misaligned network—one that generates questions rather than offering resolution.

The Chinese title, drawn from a Cantonese idiom meaning “you are both the god and the ghost,” carries connotations of capriciousness and deception. Here, however, it is recast as a condition of shifting positionality and strategic ambiguity that resists fixed identity.

Glowing devices scatter across the exhibition space. Bodies and avatars drift among them. As if breathing, spectres extend through this heaven into the fissures of time. The artist invites you into a game—but he is not the only one in control.

「神又係你，鬼又係你」嘗試整合廖家明近年來透過不同藝術類型與方法，橫跨人工智慧、酷兒文化、身體規訓、香港歷史等主題之共同創作關懷——藝術家站在當下此一交錯節點，往後回看未竟的歷史殘篇，往前望向未明的未來科技，從中探尋並重構那些已然佚失或尚未實現的肉身想像。

在此一框架下，本展浮現出一個更為核心的命題：集體性與個體性之間​​的多重辯證。前述的各個主題及相應作品，都隱含著「控制」與「賦權」的雙面刃，並經由藝術家個人的身分衝突與生命軌跡，串連起相互牽引的錯位關係，進而互為提問，而非解答。

「神又係你，鬼又係你」原帶有反覆無常的欺騙意味，在此成了藝術家逃脫認同陷阱、得以暫時安全降落的曖昧狀態，亦是可持續前進或後退的策略位置。在一個看似穩定，實為幽靈籠罩的天堂中，四散的發光體，遊蕩的肉身及化身，如同呼吸一般，向時間的縫隙延展，持續召喚不可化約的主體生成與集體感知。藝術家藉此向觀眾發出邀請：我想帶你進入一場遊戲，但我不是唯一的話事人。

11.4.2025 – 30.4.2025
12:00 – 19:00 (Wed to Sun 三至日)

Opening Reception | 開幕酒會
16:00 | 11.4.2025 (Sat 六)

Curated by | 策展：Tung Yung-Wei 童詠瑋
Visual Design | 視覺設計：Zhang Riwen 張日雯
Venue Partner | 場地伙伴：Videotage 錄映太奇
Supported by | 資助: Hong Kong Arts Development Council 香港藝術發展局*

* The Hong Kong Arts Development Council supports freedom of artistic expression. The views and opinions expressed in this project do not represent the stand of the Council. 香港藝術發展局支持藝術表達自由，本計劃內容並不反映本局意見。