'"Golden Heights Estate" is a fictional yet perfectly plausible place, an aspirational real estate project in Hong Kong complete with a prescribed and normative lifestyle. The exhibition using this title is a modest investigation into the new landscape of desires carved by the emerging global middle class. As one of the main consequences of globalization's social restructuring of the world, the consuming middle class has embraced a homogenous culture of desires, fetishes, aspirations and values across different geographies within the 'emerging' world. As the narrator of this shared global lexicon of signs and goods, the middle class is a crucial keeper of the ideological backbone of the globalized economy. Contemporary art is itself a key component of this system, making an investigation using art's own means of reflection into the classes enabling our field, an urgent and important exercise. The exhibition observes these realities and contemplates whether there is any class solidarity imaginable in this situation and if so, what could it lead to.' - from gallery's website

Alternative title

Jin feng yuan

Access level

Onsite

Location code
EXS.HGK.GHE
Language

Chinese - Traditional, 

English

Publication/Creation date

2014

ISBN / ISSN

Nil

No of copies

2

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Golden Heights Estate, 金峰苑