SOFT CRASH:

JUN 13  —  JUL 20 2025

Car Park, G/F Eaton HK

Soft Crash is a quiet collision—a meeting point between beauty and resistance, between the polished surface of fashion and the raw truths of queer and transgender identity. Set within the drop-off and carpark area of Eaton HK, a hotel that champions diversity and social activism, this exhibition turns a space of transition into a space of transformation.

Traditionally, both fashion and photography have been shaped by binary frameworks—filtered through the dominant lens of a heteronormative, male gaze. Bodies are often captured to please, to sell, or to conform. Fashion photography, in particular, has been dismissed as commercial ephemera, rarely acknowledged as serious art. Soft Crash resists these limitations. Through the eyes of queer, trans, and non-binary photographers and subjects, fashion becomes a tool of disruption—a site where identities are assembled, unstitched, and reimagined.

The carpark setting is more than aesthetic; it is metaphor. A place of pause, of waiting, of movement and margins. It reflects the lived experience of many queer individuals—forever navigating thresholds, existing between arrival and departure, visibility and erasure. Soft Crash honors that liminality. It asks: what does it mean to be seen, but not recognized? To be styled, but not understood? This exhibition embraces contradiction. It is elegant but defiant, composed but emotionally charged. Every frame is a negotiation of selfhood—bold, fragile, fluid. Fashion here is not decoration, but declaration.

As part of Pride Month 2025, we invite audiences to step out of the binary lane, park assumptions, and stay a while in this charged space of slow impact and lasting resonance. Because sometimes, a soft crash is what it takes to shatter a system.

《Soft Crash》是一場安靜的碰撞——美與抵抗的交匯點，結合時尚的光滑表面與酷兒及跨性別身份的真實故事。展覽選址於推動多元文化與社會行動的香港逸東酒店（Eaton HK）的停車場上落客區，將一個過渡性的空間轉化為一個充滿轉變可能的地方。

傳統上，時尚和攝影經常被框限於二元對立的框架中——透過異性戀主流和男性視角來過濾。人體往往被拍攝來迎合、取悅或符合既定標準。特別是時尚攝影，經常被視為商業消耗品，很少被認為是嚴肅的藝術形式。《Soft Crash》挑戰了這種狹隘觀念。透過酷兒、跨性別及非二元性別的攝影師及被攝者的視角，時尚變成了一種顛覆的工具——一個身份可以被重新組裝、拆解和想像的場域。

停車場的選址不僅僅是美學考量，它更是一個隱喻——一個暫停、等待、移動和邊緣的地方。這反映了許多酷兒人士的生活經歷——總是在不同邊界之間徘徊，存在於抵達與離開、可見與被忽視之間。《Soft Crash》向這種曖昧狀態致敬，並提出問題：被看見但不被認可是怎樣的感受？被精心塑造卻未被真正理解又意味什麼？這場展覽充滿矛盾，既優雅又挑釁，既精緻又充滿情感。每一幅影像都是對身份的探索——大膽、脆弱且流動。在這裡，時尚不再只是裝飾，而是一種聲明。

作為 2025 年同志驕傲月的一部分，我們邀請觀眾跳出二元框架，停下對刻板印象的假設，細心感受這個充滿張力的空間，體驗慢慢滲透但影響深遠的變化。因為有時候，一場柔性的碰撞，足以撼動一個體制。