A'fair is a pop-up exhibition held at a vacant shop space in Wanchai, Hong Kong from 19 Nov 2020–22 Nov 2020.

'Much like the rise and fall of independent art spaces in the city, A’fair is posed as a short-lived phantasm, a momentarily togetherness bound by a shared interest in alternative spaces and a more fluid way of working. Staged in a vacant shop space in Wanchai, the exhibition brings together a range of works by nine artists and architects from Hong Kong. 

Still plastered by estate agent’s ‘for lease' signs on the outside, the shop remains largely in situ as its voids are temporarily inhibited, animated and transformed. The exhibition unearthed itself with a nebulous beginning and will likewise descend into a rapid end, unapologetic with its ephemerality.

A’fair flirts with unwarranted time and space, fueled by an infatuation with impermanence and desire to be unthinking. Like a recently passed summer fling that is intensely intimate but short-lived, leaving an impression of sweet liberation.

—Text by Tiffany Leung, Translation by Fizen Yuen