After Epilogue

After Epilogue, by Hong Kong–born, Melbourne-based artist Judy Kong, explores cinema as a shared site of memory, refuge, and emotional resonance. This atmospheric installation reflects on the moments after a film ends – a threshold between dream and reality, memory and feeling. Cinema has always held a space of in-between: a moment where we step into darkness, fall into silence, and suspend our everyday selves. In this pause, we enter a ritual that opens a mental freedom, a space for imagining, drifting, and travelling elsewhere.

Judy reimagines cinema as an underground space of belonging, a place where cultural traces and personal imagination gathers, forming a ritual that carries people anywhere, even in moments of displacement. Rooted in the artist’s experience of growing up in Hong Kong, where many cinemas have gradually disappeared, this underground space becomes both a sanctuary and a site of quiet mourning. Combining video, sound, and sculpture, the works create a liminal space that invites us to experience how cinema resonates and stirs emotions long after the final frame. The installation deconstructs cinema into sentimental fragments, placing the viewer in a shifting space between immersion and detachment.

This exhibition is curated by Bobbi Zhuoyu Gan and Nicole Tingyue Zhang.

Photo by Bobbi Zhuoyu Gan
Design by Gomes Yuxiang Gao