Afterwork
Para Site
until 29 May 22/F, Wing Wah Industrial Building, 677 King’s Road, Quarry Bay
More than 330,000 migrant domestic workers, mostly women from Indonesia and the Philippines, make up 4% of the population of Hong Kong—its largest minority group. Their Sunday picnics on blankets and flattened cardboard have become a traditional sight in the Central business district. But domestic helpers, who must live with their employers and leave Hong Kong within two weeks of the end of their contracts, often remain invisible in other ways. As part of a long-term project to engage the community and encourage workers to tell their stories, Para Site is staging Afterwork, an exhibition exploring themes of labour and discrimination and featuring almost 30 artists, including Harun Farocki, Alfredo Jaar and Santiago Sierra. Para Site is also due to publish an anthology of texts about and by migrant domestic workers in Chinese, English, Indonesian and Tagalog.
