After Epilogue (2026)
Three-channel video, sound, 8'05, Installation, Found objects
After Epilogue, Judy Kong. video (digital still)
After Epilogue explores cinema as a shared condition 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 gather, forming a ritual that carries people anywhere, even in moments of displacement. Rooted in the artist’s experience of growing up, 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 Gan and Nicole Zhang.
Exhibited in the solo exhibition "After Epilogue" at Counihan Gallery (2026)
Document by Zhuoyu Bobbi Gan.
After Epilogue reimagines the cinema not merely as a venue, but as an sanctuary for voice and collective memory. Responding to the decline of Hong Kong’s cinematic culture, the work captures the silence after a film ends—a liminal moment of loss where the dream dissolves, and returning to reality. This transition is a metaphor for a fading culture. By deconstructing the narrative into perceptual fragments—spanning video, sound, and spatial installation—the work orchestrates a perceptual experience. Through a monochromatic aesthetic, the boundary between the dream-like and the real is blurred.
The multichannel video and installation creating a sentimental farewell. The electric guitar emerges as the work’s last frequency. In a reality where certain voices remain suppressed, the guitar echoes the memory of past freedoms. After Epilogue carves out a space for intimate mourning and individual longing.
