HONG KONG, CHINA Inverted Hong Kong

Representing Hong Kong at the Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism 2019, Géraldine Borio will examine the theme of ‘The Collective’ through the lens of her research on the city’s liminal spaces.
The interstitial network of back lanes within the dense urban fabric are ambiguous buffer zones that oscillates between the classical binary opposition of public/private, legal/illegal, inside/outside. Not planned as such, they are not assigned to particular functions or programs and are often ignored by the city’s officials. However, these in-between territories are open to multiple interpretations and offer to the city’s inhabitant a momentary space to appropriate.
Inverted Hong Kong is a site-specific installation that speculates on the shifting boundaries between inside and outside. The audience will be engaged and challenged in a representation of a city as system of thresholds where the domestic and the collective overlap.