Kwan Queenie Li: ‘Weeds: A Germinating Theory’ [Launch]

Join us at Frog King’s studio in Hong Kong to celebrate the launch of Kwan Queenie Li’s new book Weeds: A Germinating Theory. 

Li will install a series of weed photographs, embedded and half-hidden within the space of Frog King’s studio at Cattle Depot. Visitors are invited to wander through this living archive, tracing the interplay between Frog King’s visual universe and Li’s quieter, weed-like interventions.

The private view will also be a space for young “kid-artists” to draw, engage, and respond directly to Frog King’s relentless imagery and Li’s weedy constellations, contributing to an ongoing happening within frogTOPIA open.

Free to attend.

Sunday 29 March
16:00 

frogTOPIA open
Unit 10, Cattle Depot Artist Village
Hong Kong

More about Weeds

For over a decade, artist and theorist Kwan Queenie Li has been photographing weeds across the world. From Jerusalem to Shanghai, Varanasi to Athens, Cairo to Mexico City, she has trained her attention on these unintended but ubiquitous inhabitants of the contemporary urban sphere, finding them dwelling in corners and cracks, in spaces suspended between uses, in ruins and on construction sites.

This essay in image and text proposes a new view of cities that learns from the weed’s point of view, dissolving familiar categories and temporalities to see cities as evolving and often undefined spaces, replete with opportunity. 

Weeds: A Germinating Theory is published as part of Sightlines.