Bouie Choi: We stay up late to behold the beauty of the stars

PF25 cultural projects May - June Programme, Basel

PF25 cultural projects is delighted to announce Hong Kong artist Bouie Choi's international debut in her solo exhibition in Basel ‘We stay up late to behold the beauty of the stars,’ as part of our residency and community projects.

The exhibition will showcase newly commissioned wood paintings including ‘The watery-fall’ and ‘Anchors – the night bird’ and a video work of the same title as the exhibition, alongside her recent works on paper featuring Hong Kong urbanscapes and the board game ‘Reversi Hong Kong’. By sharing her psyche as well as observations of her hometown Hong Kong, Bouie’s surreal yet intimate works set an uncanny tone that seek to capture the emotional resonance and complexity between interior and exterior, physical and metaphysical, and the multi-perspectives of far and close oscillating between different times and dimensions. Evoking the format of Chinese landscape painting, our eyes wander across the narratives in her wood paintings with pigments that reflect light and flicker like stars. This twinkling gives a sense of consolation to the artist amidst the constant states of flux of the world.

Each visitor is invited to bring a postcard about their homeland to the following events where stories can be shared together. This exchange will serve as Bouie’s continuous research with PF25 and future projects.

Stories Exchange Community Project
Wednesday 31 May 18-20h, 19h: Artist sharing session moderated by programme curator Angelika Li
Nonnenweg 45, 4055 Basel

Exhibition Vernissage
Tuesday 13 June 18-21h
Pfeffergässlein 25, 4051 Basel (Entrance at Nadelberg 33)

Event Registration
Celine Ngai  celine@PF25.org  /  +41 76 696 4066

Exhibition until 30 June

Viewing by appointment only
connect@PF25.org  / + 41 76 781 7678

Our programme is supported by

Christoph Merian Stiftung, Hong Kong Arts Development Council, Achtsamkeit Basel, and mobani