Antony Gormley: Event Horizon Hong Kong
Event Horizon engages the desire to look up and re-evaluate familiar places with new meanings, particularly pertinent to Hong Kong where space is condensed and density heightened, It encourages discovery through movement and time, for visitors to be conscious and aware of their bodily surroundings, It stimulates discussion, presenting to the fore issues that relate to the core of our society, yet are seldom explored. It challenges the binary distinctions we all too often impose on the world, cultivating instead original thought that questions the conventional norms of the traditional canon. Through this initiative, KAF diverts the spotlight away from the commercial art world to the city itself, capitalising on public space as an international springboard to create a new cultural identity for Hong Kong.