Just opened this week, Mobile M+: Inflation is a brand new exhibition of temporary inflatable structures curated by M+, the new museum for visual culture in Hong Kong’s West Kowloon Cultural District. Set in what will soon become the district’s park, the has exhibition brought artists from China, the UK, the USA, Korea and Hong Kong together to create enormous, giant balloon like structures of over 3 stories high that loom over the Hong Kong skyline.

Accessible via a concrete maze, the giant Lily Pads, inflatable Stone Henge replica (including bouncy castle!), rat featuring glowing red eyes, solar panels and more that one finds when roaming through the installation are full of drama – and not just a little bit playful with their distorted sense of structure and scale. Peeking inside the installations, one finds crazy colours and cavernous spaces, whilst, from the outside they seem entirely otherworldly set against the stark urban jungle of the city’s skyscrapers. Designed to challenge preconceptions of how we interact with art in public spaces, the exhibition is a visual feast, and a must for our Hong Kong friends.

Click through our gallery of pictures of the exhibition’s launch above

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