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Antenna Space is delighted to announce Swayy Wayy<\/i>, a solo exhibition by artist Li Ming, marking a significant presentation at Antenna Space Hong Kong in Wong Chuk Hang. The exhibition will run from June 6 through August 8, 2026.<\/p>\n
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Press Release<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cSwayy wayy,\u201d the echo of a conversation. Last year, I met a Daoist priest. He wore a polo shirt, had a clean buzz cut, stylish black-rimmed glasses, and spoke calmly. He re-rendered the illusions I had projected onto the identity of a Daoist priest, while also shattering my stereotypes about the role.<\/p>\n I can no longer remember how the conversation started. I said:<\/p>\n I wanted to place clay on top of a large spinning top, whip it so it would spin fast and steadily, then, within that brief moment of rotation, find the right \u201chunting\u201d opportunity \u2014to grab the clay from the top and instantly mold it into a sculpture. (As a side note: in actual shooting, the real physics was nothing like what I had imagined. Not a single attempt succeeded. Even getting a 40-pound stainless steel top to start spinning required a fair amount of imagination.)<\/p>\n After hearing this, the Daoist priest said:<\/p>\n \u201cEvery time you whip the top, it loses one of its lives. Did you know that?\u201d<\/p>\n That sentence was like a small pebble dropped onto still water, sending out slow ripples.<\/p>\n To be precise, it took a year before I realized the ripples were coming toward me. His words can be translated into one word: refresh. Swayy wayy, Refresh the Fe\u0300ng (Chapter 4 of Inspired by Transliteration) \u2014 in the slit scan, the circumferentially spinning top becomes a horizontally unfolding wave. The failed grabs, the moments caught too early or too late, are stretched into a row of temporal scales. Call them tokens.<\/p>\n 202, Building 17, No.50 Moganshan Rd., Shanghai T +86 21 6256 0187 19\/F Leader Centre, 37 Wong Chuk Hang Road, Wong Chuk Hang, Hong Kong T +852 2115 1108<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n antenna-space.com media@antenna-space.com<\/p>\n Refresh \u201cexpired film\u201d (#Ha\u0308nselPassingThrough#cookie), \u201cexpired footage\u201d (Four Readings of a Structure) \u2014 cycling from the state of completion back to the state of process.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Refresh the runway of converging perspective lines; the pacing of deviant steps, The echo of a conversation. The dart of sound. Don’t forget Yondu’s whistle. Refresh \u201cSway,\u201d <\/p>\n<\/div>\n Text by Li Ming<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n -<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Antenna Space is delighted to announce Swayy Wayy, a solo exhibition by artist Li Ming, marking a significant presentation at Antenna Space Hong Kong in Wong Chuk Hang. The exhibition will run from June 6 through August 8, 2026. – Press Release \u201cSwayy wayy,\u201d the echo of a conversation. Now, it\u2019s a dart of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13575,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n
\nNow, it\u2019s a dart of sound \u2014 the arrow that obeys the whistle of Yondu, Star-Lord\u2019s adoptive father in Guardians of the Galaxy.<\/p>\n
\nNot the kind with a long white beard, a horsetail whisk, or talismanic charms.<\/p>\n
\nI only recall that at some point, feeling inspired, I mentioned the idea of shooting a piece called ChatGTP.<\/p>\n
\nHe wasn\u2019t talking about the lifespan of the top \u2014 but about its branching time and forking paths.<\/p>\n
\none whip, one ripple \u2014 \u201cHa\u0308 nsel Passing Through\u201d.<\/p>\n
\nRefresh the fragmented nursery rhymes of street rap, the deformed movements,
\nRefresh the two black kites above Xiangye Road and the white geckos on the tropical island,
\nRefresh the latent space, so that the new angels may fly from the silver-shadow space to elsewhere…<\/p>\n
\nthe tail of the former word sticking to the latter.<\/p>\n