Upcoming Exhibition

New Work: Samson Young

December 21, 2024–June 22, 2025
Floor 4
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Entry to this exhibition is included with general admission.

Widely recognized for his singular approach towards sound and new technologies, Samson Young (born 1979, Hong Kong; based in Hong Kong) utilizes performance, video, and installation to rigorously examine the cultural, political, and historical contexts of sound. Samson Young’s first West Coast solo exhibition debuts Intentness and songs, a multimedia installation that poetically traces the idiosyncratic rhythms of love, memory, and experiences of time. In this interconnected audiovisual landscape, Young draws on the duration and rhythm of human and generative AI memory recall processes as the basis for polychromatic sculptures, videos, and a mesmerizing soundscape. Visitors are invited to wander through pathways of wooden boards with markings created through a mix of techniques and 3D-printed boards etched and embedded with objects and memories excerpted from the lives of the artist and his husband.

Artist's Past Projects

A large rectangular object with a picture of a person holding a bowl with a fire.
Samson Young, Altar music (liturgy for an indecisive believer), 2022 (installation view, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne); courtesy the artist and Galerie Gisela Capitain; photo: Simon Vogel
Samson Young, Refrains and Variations, 2023 (installation view, Petzel Gallery, New York); courtesy the artist and Petzel Gallery
Samson Young, Possible Music #1.5 (feat. NESS & Stephan Moore), 2019 (installation view, Now Is the Time: 2019 Wuzhen Contemporary Art Exhibition, Wuzhen, China); courtesy the artist; photo: Art Wuzhen
Samson Young, Songs for Disaster Relief, 2021 (installation view, Hong Kong Pavilion, the 57th Venice Biennale, 2017); courtesy the artist and Galerie Gisela Capitain; photo: Simon Vogel
Samson Young, Sonata for Smoke, 2021 (installation view, Ryosoku-In in Kenninji Temple, Kyoto); courtesy the artist and Galerie Gisela Capitain; photo: Nobutada Omote

Significant support for New Work: Samson Young is provided by Robin Wright and Ian Reeves.

Meaningful support is provided by Alka and Ravin Agrawal, Lionel F. Conacher and Joan T. Dea, and Adriane Iann and Christian Stolz.

Header image: Samson Young, Altar music (liturgy for an indecisive believer), 2022 (installation view, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne); courtesy the artist and Galerie Gisela Capitain; photo: Simon Vogel