We are pleased to announce Pratchaya Phinthong’s solo exhibition Empty Set at Para Site, Hong Kong.
Phinthong’s first institutional solo exhibition in Hong Kong, ‘Empty Set’ serves as both an intervention and a stage—bringing together cultural workers, scientists and cross-disciplinary collaborators to pose questions, share critical reflections and explore futures shaped by the climate emergency. The exhibition acts as a catalyst for a larger project that will unfold throughout fall 2025 in and around Para Site’s space through site interventions, a symposium, a film programme and performances.
The exhibition uses the ‘empty set’ (∅)—a circle with a diagonal dash, an absence with defined boundaries yet containing no elements—as a guiding concept and a conceptual placeholder for ideas and discussions outside of rigid knowledge structures. ‘Empty Set’ creates a place for new possibilities, a literal opening of the exhibition space to the outside world. Walls, windows and other thresholds become elements of an experiential montage, edited into interventions that dissolve the fourth wall of the gallery and expose it to realities beyond.
There will be an artist conversation with Billy Tang, the curator of the exhibition at 6:30 pm on Sep 12, 2025.
Phinthong’s first institutional solo exhibition in Hong Kong, ‘Empty Set’ serves as both an intervention and a stage—bringing together cultural workers, scientists and cross-disciplinary collaborators to pose questions, share critical reflections and explore futures shaped by the climate emergency. The exhibition acts as a catalyst for a larger project that will unfold throughout fall 2025 in and around Para Site’s space through site interventions, a symposium, a film programme and performances.
The exhibition uses the ‘empty set’ (∅)—a circle with a diagonal dash, an absence with defined boundaries yet containing no elements—as a guiding concept and a conceptual placeholder for ideas and discussions outside of rigid knowledge structures. ‘Empty Set’ creates a place for new possibilities, a literal opening of the exhibition space to the outside world. Walls, windows and other thresholds become elements of an experiential montage, edited into interventions that dissolve the fourth wall of the gallery and expose it to realities beyond.
There will be an artist conversation with Billy Tang, the curator of the exhibition at 6:30 pm on Sep 12, 2025.
September 13, 2025
