In 2010 Hong-Kong based painter and installation artist Simon Birch broke new ground for large-scale art projects in Hong Kong with his multi-media show ‘HOPE & GLORY’ at the ArtisTree.

Now Birch returns to oils and canvas with a new intensity in a much-anticipated exhibition of paintings which opens on May 19, at the HK Museum of Medical Sciences in the heart of Sheung Wan. Show is on until June 19th. Free entrance.

In Laughing with a Mouth Full of Blood, Birch extends his exploration of the human body in figurative paintings that tilt into abstraction, conveying fragility and resilience, movement and mindfulness. These ambitious new works, characterized by Birch’s distinctive paintwork, map the complex intertwining of pain and pleasure, aversion and desire, decay and growth. The subjects of Birch’s deconstructed portraiture, poised between action and reflection, intimate vulnerability and the threat of human dissolution, even as they hint at the body’s capacity to resist the abstracting gaze of modern science.

Laughing with a Mouth Full of Blood is a major show by one of Hong Kong’s foremost painters and installation artists, with a growing international reputation.

Venue: Hong Kong Museum of Medical Sciences (2 Caine Lane, Mid-Levels, Hong Kong)
Opening hours: 10am-8pm daily. Closed Mondays.