Confluence • 20+, an exhibition of 20 of Hong Kong’s most outstanding designers. The exhibition showcases the work of a group of entrepreneurs, thinkers and designers, both native to Hong Kong and those who have lived and practiced in Hong Kong for a long period of time, whose work addresses a global audience and provides the world with a new vantage point on their country.
The creative forces in play in the exhibition are manifested in a city characterized by its unique positioning and unprecedented opportunity within Asia and China. Additionally, cultural diversity, density, state of flux, and contrast between modernity and tradition, the East and the West have had a profound influence on the designers exhibiting.
Each designer represents Hong Kong as a hub of experimentation - generating new approaches and solutions of worldwide relevance – and as a driving force for a new discussion of design in the twenty-first century. Curator Amy Chow, says: “Underpinning the exhibits is an extra value added to everyday objects through revisiting with fresh eyes. Hong Kong designers have raised the bar in bridging the aesthetics of the East and West. They offer a vision that transgresses personal, disciplinary, and social boundaries.”