Certainly: A Group Exhibition on Uncertainty

Description

Curated by co-founder and curatorial director of Serakai Studio, Tobias Berger (formerly of Tai Kwun), CERTAINLY is a group exhibition inspired by artist-composer La Monte Young’s seminal 1960 work “Composition 1960 #10.” What appears to be a simple directive soon reveals its contradictions, as the line “Draw a straight line and follow it” deviates.

Taking this tension as its starting point, CERTAINLY considers uncertainty as a defining condition of both artistic practice and lived experience. Featuring artists such as Tozer Pak Sheung Chuen, Lousy, Santiago Sierra and Shinro Ohtake, the exhibition spans different media and approaches. Each artist reflects on the impossibility of perfect predictions — and the creative space that emerges when systems, structures and expectations begin to fracture.

Young, like his contemporaries John Cage, Nam June Paik and Yoko Ono, blurred the boundaries between art, music and daily life during the 1950s and 1960s, redefining what artistic practice could mean. Their instruction-based works proposed that process, time and lived experience were as significant as form or outcome. The exhibition continues this exploration into the beauty of uncertainty.

The exhibition marks the launch of Serakai’s new cultural space, Gold. From 21 to 29 March, the gallery is open daily from 10:00 to 18:00, with extended hours until 23:00 on 24 March.