Hong Kong: White Cube
By Ophelia Lai
Installation view of TAKIS’s solo exhibition at White Cube, Hong Kong, 2020-21. Photo by Kitmin Lee/White Cube. Copyright the artist. Courtesy White Cube, London/Hong Kong.
Nineteenth-century breakthroughs in the study of electromagnetism pointed to a vast realm of unseen forces that, with the right technologies, could be manipulated in perceivable ways. It was hardly a leap, then, to infer that science could demystify paranormal phenomena—respected physicists including Joseph John Thomson and Oliver Lodge also investigated telepathy and spirit communication.
