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ROOMS: Forms of Belief, Belief in Forms

exhibition
exhibition
Mar 14–Apr 11
reception Mar 14, 6:00–8:00pm
HONMI (Namhi Kwun and Bryan Hon Ting Wong)
Venue:
Wiesner Student Art Gallery, Stratton Student Center W20-209
Wiesner Student Art Gallery, Stratton Student Center W20-209

Forms serve as agencies where our beliefs take shape, connecting us to the collective, the spiritual, and the commemorative. While rituals traditionally resist modern systems like capitalism and globalization, they now reflect industrial and technological influences. Drawing from Hong Kong’s Ghost Month joss paper practices, where symbolic items like iPhones and luxury goods are burned for ancestors, this exhibition examines the intersection of tradition and modernity. A continuously printing, altar-like machine transforms industrial processes into spiritual acts, extended into a ritualistic shed, inviting meditation and reflection.

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Credit Laurel Chor

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ROOMS: Forms of Belief, Belief in Forms

exhibition
exhibition
Mar 14–Apr 11
reception Mar 14, 6:00–8:00pm
HONMI (Namhi Kwun and Bryan Hon Ting Wong)
Venue:
Wiesner Student Art Gallery, Stratton Student Center W20-209
Wiesner Student Art Gallery, Stratton Student Center W20-209

Forms serve as agencies where our beliefs take shape, connecting us to the collective, the spiritual, and the commemorative. While rituals traditionally resist modern systems like capitalism and globalization, they now reflect industrial and technological influences. Drawing from Hong Kong’s Ghost Month joss paper practices, where symbolic items like iPhones and luxury goods are burned for ancestors, this exhibition examines the intersection of tradition and modernity. A continuously printing, altar-like machine transforms industrial processes into spiritual acts, extended into a ritualistic shed, inviting meditation and reflection.

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Credit Laurel Chor

ROOMS: Forms of Belief, Belief in Forms

exhibition
exhibition
Mar 14–Apr 11
reception Mar 14, 6:00–8:00pm
HONMI (Namhi Kwun and Bryan Hon Ting Wong)
Venue:
Wiesner Student Art Gallery, Stratton Student Center W20-209
Wiesner Student Art Gallery, Stratton Student Center W20-209

Forms serve as agencies where our beliefs take shape, connecting us to the collective, the spiritual, and the commemorative. While rituals traditionally resist modern systems like capitalism and globalization, they now reflect industrial and technological influences. Drawing from Hong Kong’s Ghost Month joss paper practices, where symbolic items like iPhones and luxury goods are burned for ancestors, this exhibition examines the intersection of tradition and modernity. A continuously printing, altar-like machine transforms industrial processes into spiritual acts, extended into a ritualistic shed, inviting meditation and reflection.

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Credit Laurel Chor

ROOMS: Forms of Belief, Belief in Forms

exhibition
exhibition
Mar 14–Apr 11
reception Mar 14, 6:00–8:00pm
HONMI (Namhi Kwun and Bryan Hon Ting Wong)
Venue:
Wiesner Student Art Gallery, Stratton Student Center W20-209
Wiesner Student Art Gallery, Stratton Student Center W20-209

Forms serve as agencies where our beliefs take shape, connecting us to the collective, the spiritual, and the commemorative. While rituals traditionally resist modern systems like capitalism and globalization, they now reflect industrial and technological influences. Drawing from Hong Kong’s Ghost Month joss paper practices, where symbolic items like iPhones and luxury goods are burned for ancestors, this exhibition examines the intersection of tradition and modernity. A continuously printing, altar-like machine transforms industrial processes into spiritual acts, extended into a ritualistic shed, inviting meditation and reflection.

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Credit Laurel Chor

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ROOMS: Forms of Belief, Belief in Forms

exhibition
exhibition
Mar 14–Apr 11
reception Mar 14, 6:00–8:00pm
HONMI (Namhi Kwun and Bryan Hon Ting Wong)
Venue:
Wiesner Student Art Gallery, Stratton Student Center W20-209
Wiesner Student Art Gallery, Stratton Student Center W20-209

Forms serve as agencies where our beliefs take shape, connecting us to the collective, the spiritual, and the commemorative. While rituals traditionally resist modern systems like capitalism and globalization, they now reflect industrial and technological influences. Drawing from Hong Kong’s Ghost Month joss paper practices, where symbolic items like iPhones and luxury goods are burned for ancestors, this exhibition examines the intersection of tradition and modernity. A continuously printing, altar-like machine transforms industrial processes into spiritual acts, extended into a ritualistic shed, inviting meditation and reflection.

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Credit Laurel Chor

ROOMS: Forms of Belief, Belief in Forms

exhibition
exhibition
Mar 14–Apr 11
reception Mar 14, 6:00–8:00pm
HONMI (Namhi Kwun and Bryan Hon Ting Wong)
Venue:
Wiesner Student Art Gallery, Stratton Student Center W20-209
Wiesner Student Art Gallery, Stratton Student Center W20-209

Forms serve as agencies where our beliefs take shape, connecting us to the collective, the spiritual, and the commemorative. While rituals traditionally resist modern systems like capitalism and globalization, they now reflect industrial and technological influences. Drawing from Hong Kong’s Ghost Month joss paper practices, where symbolic items like iPhones and luxury goods are burned for ancestors, this exhibition examines the intersection of tradition and modernity. A continuously printing, altar-like machine transforms industrial processes into spiritual acts, extended into a ritualistic shed, inviting meditation and reflection.

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Credit Laurel Chor

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ROOMS: Forms of Belief, Belief in Forms

ROOMS: Forms of Belief, Belief in Forms

exhibition
exhibition
Mar 14–Apr 11
reception Mar 14, 6:00–8:00pm
HONMI (Namhi Kwun and Bryan Hon Ting Wong)
Venue:
Wiesner Student Art Gallery, Stratton Student Center W20-209
Wiesner Student Art Gallery, Stratton Student Center W20-209

Forms serve as agencies where our beliefs take shape, connecting us to the collective, the spiritual, and the commemorative. While rituals traditionally resist modern systems like capitalism and globalization, they now reflect industrial and technological influences. Drawing from Hong Kong’s Ghost Month joss paper practices, where symbolic items like iPhones and luxury goods are burned for ancestors, this exhibition examines the intersection of tradition and modernity. A continuously printing, altar-like machine transforms industrial processes into spiritual acts, extended into a ritualistic shed, inviting meditation and reflection.

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Drawing inspiration from the joss paper burning (燒衣紙) practices in Hong Kong during Ghost Month, locals engage in ceremonial incineration to communicate with the deceased. Joss paper, shaped to resemble consumable items like iPhones, Rolexes, or even Mercedes Benz, is sent to the underworld, allowing ancestors to enjoy these modern luxuries. Though this tradition originates from Buddhist and Taoist practices, it is the mass manufactured materials and goods that give form to these beliefs in our contemporary world.

Taking place in the Weisner Gallery over one and a half months, this exhibition critically accounts the intersection of belief and modernity, positioning the viewers within an ambiguous ritual—a continuously printing, yet unreachable, machine housed in an altar. This is drawn specifically to the mass production of joss paper that uses industrial printers to create all forms of symbolic and materialistic worships, by reversing its mechanical nature into a spiritual one instead.  This installation invites viewers to project their own beliefs onto the ritual, offering the space for meditation, self-contemplation or collective reflection. Students and faculty in MIT are encouraged to isolate themselves momentarily from life's constraints, using the space to rediscover oneself, regain confidence, and foster love and solidarity.

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The exhibition will be on display from Mar 14–Apr 11 and accessible daily from 9am-9pm.

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Mar 14, 6:00–8:00pm // Opening Reception

Join the artists for a reception celebrating the opening of the exhibition

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HONMI, Bryan Honting Wong (MArch '24) and Namhi Kwun (SMArchS Urbanism, MCP ‘25), are artist-duo trained in the fields of architecture based between New York and Boston. Their work centers on art as medium to critique geographical abstractions under modernism, revealing cultural disappearances, and expanding conventional lexicons with alternative values. Their practice also experiments new Pop-Up models as a reaction to the post-apocalyptic retail environments by connecting vacant storefronts with emerging designers. They have recently collaborated with Bungee Space and Verconiik at their first Pop-Up Classified, had previously received grants from CAMIT and Sandbox, and were also the recipients of the 2024 Harold and Arlene Schnitzer Prize in the Visual Arts.

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