Ben Brown Fine Arts is pleased to present Wish You Were Here, an exhibition curated by New York-based curator, art advisor, and independent scholar Jie Xia. On view at Ben Brown Fine Arts Hong Kong, the exhibition evokes the intoxicating pull of summer: the heat, the haze, and the promise of escape. Featuring works by leading postwar and contemporary artists — drawn from the gallery’s programme and beyond — the exhibition explores the iconography of travel, the sea, and the rituals of seasonal escape, approached with varying degrees of meditation, longing, and nostalgia.

Wish You Were Here is a meditation on how we construct and consume paradise – through postcards, advertisements, snapshots, and stylised memories. The beach is explored as a mirage of freedom, mythologised in oil paint, photography, and glossy idealism.