Tao Hui, Joint Images, 2016, single channel HD video (color, sound), duration: 14:27 min
Exhibition view: An Opera For Animals, Para Site, Hong Kong, 2019
Photo © Eddie Lam, Image Art Studio
An Opera for Animals, curated by Cosmin Costinas and Claire Shea, explores the way in which the future is now projected less as the rational thinking commonly remembered from the post-war era – advanced machinery, design, and social forms – but once more as a place of amorphous fear, of animals that might take over in artificial landscapes. The future it seems, will again be an opera for animals.