Artificial Flavor

Symbiosis 3.0: Artificial Flavor
共生 3.0：人工風味

Exhibition time period
Opening 19 March 7 – 9PM
20 – 30 March 2026
Daily, 12 – 7pm

Address
101080 HHH2/F Hollywood Centre233 Hollywood RoadSheung Wan Hong Kong

Symbiosis 3.0: Artificial Flavour curated by Richard Bakes and Shan Wong (Flyingpig) examines the
deepening symbiosis between natural phenomena and human-made artefacts. Drawing from the food industry—where synthetic compounds mimic or replace natural tastes—it employs artificial flavour as a powerful metaphor. With prolonged exposure, people gradually forget the original taste: the synthetic version becomes the new norm, reshaping memory and perception while demanding ever-stronger, more intense iterations to satisfy the
senses and sustain excitement—an insatiable, self-perpetuating cycle that, once begun, never ends. Lenka Bakes explores biological plasticity through anomalies such as the starfish strawberry, as well as genetic interventions—technology, psychedelics, urban environments—and how these reconfigure identity and perception. Foreseen Agency in Unconnected Broadband transforms Hong Kong’s colonial staircases into game-like maps that lure curiosity to fuel endless revelation. Similarly, Liao Jiaming in Open Yourselves (Ourselves) manipulates AI-altered dating-app images, transferring faded results onto worn clothing to capture how algorithmic reconstructions intensify queer desire.

Some works subtly resist technological dominance: Miroslava Večeřová (with Lucie Kordačová) in Arietis Sisters and the Sun embrace ecofeminist harmony while acknowledging how artificial forces threaten to overwrite these organic rhythms. Stanislav Zábrodský dramatises computational collapse by imprinting failing digital infrastructures onto molten tin, producing chaotic bio-mimetic forms that mimic natural processes in the Anthropocene. Lenka Glisníková bakes digital prints with plaster and polymers into tactile hybrid objects resembling processed food, dissolving boundaries between the artificial and the organic.

To simulate the artificial world, Eason Tsang Ka Wai in Tape archives everyday logistics tape of urban traces from transportation and packaging, highlighting how hyper-capitalist technological progression traps the self within endless cycles of consumption and dystopian anxiety. Ruba Al-Sweel in Plastic Pilgrims traces a stolen phone’s journey through mythologised e-waste chains, exposing technology’s seductive promise of connectivity as a disposability-driven cycle that overwrites social realities. Debbie Ding in Aunty 101: Drift Alley immerses viewers in a cyberpunk VR world of marginal digital economies, demonstrating how synthetic architectures supplant original realities with addictive, escalating immersion and fragile care. The exhibition reveals how today’s rapid technological development drives humans to adapt to and increasingly depend on devices, blurring the boundaries between the organic and the engineer

Guest Talk Panel 24 Mar (Tue) 5 – 9:30pm

5 – 6pm
Spoiled Systems Slow Sabotage – an International Female Artist Collaboration and the Saloon Network
Jing Chin–yin Chong (TW/HK) + Elisa Duca (DE)
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6 – 7pm
Ritual Playgrounds in Ceremonial Creation
Benoit Palop (FR/JP) + Brandon Tay (SG/CN–SH)
Moderated by: Angela Liu (HK)
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7:30 – 9:30pm
Monday Chat Room
Hosted by Clara Che Wei Peh (SG) + SATA (HK)

Guest Talk Panel 28 Mar (Sat) 3 – 5:30pm

3 – 4pm
Hyperreal Bites: Artificial Materiality
Eason Tsang Ka Wai (HK) + Liao Jiaming (HK)
Moderated by Richard Bakeš (CZ)
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4 – 4:30pm
Post Ecosystem: Anthropogenic Interference
Conversation between Ryuta Aoki (JP) and Lo Lailai
Natalie (HK)
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4:30 – 5:30pm
FlavoringKnowledge in Emergent Realities
Shan Wong (HK) + Jenn Leung (HK/UK)
Moderated by Ashley Wong(HK)

Venue: 101080 HHH, 2/F, Hollywood Centre, 233 Hollywood Road, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong

本次展覽由Richard Bakeš（捷克）與黃詠珊（Flyingpig）共同策劃，聚焦於運用人工合成材料進行創作的藝術家，涵蓋聚合物、天然物料、都市現成物及數位物質性等媒介。參展藝術家包括Lenka Glisníková（捷克）、Miroslava Večeřová（捷克）、Lenka Bakeš（捷克）、Stanislav Zábrodský（捷克），以及Ruba Al-Sweel（沙特阿拉伯）、Debbie Ding（新加坡）、曾家偉（香港）、廖家明（香港），並特邀藝術組合「Foreseen Agency」（香港） 成員陳家智與黃詠珊共同參與。

「共生 3.0」藝術計畫，延續自布魯塞爾布拉格之家的首屆「共生 1.0」，並承繼於香港藝術中心展出的第二屆「共生 2.0」之。該屆展演獲捷克總領事館支持，並納入巴塞爾藝術展香港展會之週邊項目。2026年的計畫再度與捷克總領事館及SATA，聯同Berlinskej Model，Studio TIO攜手籌備，共同策劃匯聚捷克、香港及國際藝術家，旨在促進跨洲對話，豐富本地藝術生態。

「人工風味」，旨在探討自然現象與人造物之間的共生關係。展覽靈感源自食品工業中以合成化合物模仿或取代天然風味的現象，進而探索人工系統（聚合物、演算法、都市肌理）如何滲透創造領域，並消融有機體與人造物之間的界限。

在科技浸潤一切的時代，人機協作呈現出「賽伯格狀態」：技術擴展人類的感知與能動性，同時人類的意圖、情感與文化亦為機器注入具表現力的「風味」。機器不再只是工具，更成為意義的共同創造者，以精確性與生成力，參與構建混雜的現實。

展出的作品涵蓋超現實形態、身體表演與批判性都市介入，皆體現這種相互增強的共生關係，挑戰自然與人工的傳統分野。「共生3.0：人工風味」呈現的賽伯格，並非未來臆想，而是當下持續共同創造、可被感知的現實體驗。

展覽由場地合作夥伴 101080 藝術空間聯合主辨。
Address
101080 HHH
2/F Hollywood Centre
233 Hollywood Road
Sheung Wan Hong Kong