K11, the shopping mall-cum-art space, decks its halls with displays of art, architecture, and 17.5 meters of gold inflatable tubes in its current exhibition, “Urban Sense.”The projects chosen for the show comment on the aspects of Hong Kong that make it unique, either engaging directly with Hong Kong city life or interrogating notions of urban space more generally. Or, in the case of design team People’s Architecture Office, through a giant installation of inflatable tubes. The work, “Golden Bubbles,” crisscrosses the atrium of K11, connecting visitors as they peer through to shoppers on other floors. The mirrored surfaces, inside and out, reveal a kaleidoscopic view of the busy surroundings.Other highlights include Atelier J-AR’s “Intuition,” an interactive bamboo forest that changes according to the visitor’s position within the environment, and “Myriad,” a piece from Berlin’s Topotek 1 in collaboration with composer Rebecca Saunders that uses nearly 2,000 music boxes to create ever-shifting sonic landscapes.For “Urban Space,” K11 has created its first audio guide, with six original soundtracks composed by local musicians: the Heman, Gravity Alterstra, Adrian Lo, Kevin Kaho Tsui, Ghost Style, and Yukilovey.Also created specially for the exhibition is a short film, “Everything.” The film, which sets words from Flaubert’s classic novel “Madame Bovary” against images of contemporary Hong Kong, will be shown in “Cinema Island,” a viewing booth created in a collaboration between architect Colin Fournier and artist Marysia Lewandowska.“Urban Sense” runs through May 15 at K11, in Hong Kong.
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