Asia Artwork Archive (AAA) presents a brand new exhibition for Hong Kong’s Artwork Month, In Our Personal Yard, that delves into the artistic impulses and types of gathering throughout the girls’s actions in South Asia from the Nineteen Eighties onwards, by means of the archives of artists Sheba Chhachhi and Lala Rukh. The exhibition will likely be on view at AAA’s library from 20 March to 30 August. The exhibition is open to the general public freed from cost. The exhibition is part of AAA’s analysis initiative on gender in artwork historical past, highlighting narratives that emphasise communities and exchanges throughout the cultural subject.
“In Our Personal Yard” explores the artistic impulses and types of gathering throughout the girls’s actions in South Asia from the Nineteen Eighties onward. Developed as a collaboration between AAA’s Hong Kong and New Delhi groups, the exhibition engages the non-public archives of artists Sheba Chhachhi and Lala Rukh—who performed very important roles as organisers and documenters—showcasing their archival supplies and artworks alongside contributions from a various neighborhood of feminist practitioners and organisations within the area.
Sheba Chhachhi and Lala Rukh’s archives function a focus for exploring the affective registers generated by the ladies’s actions. The show begins with the artists’ intensive photograph documentation, capturing the varied websites of gathering that outlined this pivotal second—from small-scale, intimate workshops and seminars to avenue actions in addition to regional and worldwide gatherings. It showcases how ephemeral supplies comparable to posters, booklets, and songs problem conventions of the archive of their circulation and immediacy, shifting at a tempo that eludes seize. The archival supplies present extra context for the three artworks on show—Lala Rukh’s Sigiriya III: Night time (1993) and sound work Subh-e-Umeed (2008), and Sheba Chhachhi’s mild field set up The Yamuna Collection (2005). Maryam Rahman’s Lala Rukh: Artwork, Love & Feminism (2025), a youngsters’s e book narrating the artist’s contributions, additionally accompanies the exhibition.
Moreover, the exhibition invitations Asian Feminist Studio for Artwork and Analysis (AFSAR), a recent collective and digital platform with members from throughout Asia and its diasporas, to reply to the concepts and supplies on show. AFSAR members current Shifting Hums (2025), a web based radio station that unfolds all through the exhibition, that includes readings, songs, interviews, and subject recordings, culminating in an onsite gathering. A collection of guided excursions and public programmes will likely be held together with the exhibition.
“In Our Personal Yard” is generously supported by Mimi Brown & Alp Erçil and the AAA Ladies and Gender Variety Fund.
Media companions for “In Our Personal Yard” are ArtReview Asia and Mousse.
at Asia Artwork Archive –(AAA), Hong Kong
till August 30, 2025
