Sigg Art Prize 2025, M+ Museum, Hong Kong
September 6 2025 – January 4, 2026

Bent (2025) transforms the gallery into a charged spatial environment where film, sound, sculpture, and painting form one continuous field. At the center of the installation is the single channel film Promenade, which sets the emotional and temporal pulse of the work. The film unfolds through non-linear sequences that register the residues of suspense, movement, and encounter. Rather than presenting a defined storyline, Promenade gathers moments that precede, surround, or follow an act, reflecting states and impressions that accumulate around creation.

A low-frequency soundscape, is mixed to feel as if it rises from the building itself, while shifting natural light from a high window continuously alters the atmosphere of the space. The elements in the installation heighten the tensions of the space and the sense of orientation that fluctuates within it. The title of the installation holds a double meaning: “bent” as curvature and distortion, and “曲” as musical composition, pointing to the treatment of space as a structure built from resonance, pacing, and rhythm. Across the installation, fragments and traces that cannot be captured as a whole. Bent becomes a space that holds the emotional pre- and after-effects of performance, where presence, memory, and anticipation coexist.