“Spectres in Heaven” brings together Liao Jiaming’s recent works across a range of artistic forms and methodologies, engaging themes such as artificial intelligence, queer culture, bodily discipline, and the histories of Hong Kong. The artist turns toward the unresolved fragments of the past, while also orienting toward indeterminate technological futures. Within this temporal disjunction, the works rearticulate bodily imaginaries that have been lost or remain unrealized.

The exhibition foregrounds a central concern: the irreducible tension between collectivity and individuality. Across the works, control and empowerment unfold in ambivalent relation. Through the artist’s lived trajectories and contradictions, these relations form an entangled yet misaligned network—one that generates questions rather than offering resolution.

The Chinese title, drawn from a Cantonese idiom meaning “you are both the god and the ghost,” carries connotations of capriciousness and deception. Here, however, it is recast as a condition of shifting positionality and strategic ambiguity that resists fixed identity.

Glowing devices scatter across the exhibition space. Bodies and avatars drift among them. As if breathing, spectres extend through this heaven into the fissures of time. The artist invites you into a game—but he is not the only one in control.