Lies 1 @ Six Keyz Gallery

Was having drinks at Zuma on Thursday (or as SF likes to call it, "boring bourgeoise drinks") when I got a call from ZL to drag me off all the way to the other side of Hong Kong island in Chai Wan to check out a party/exhibition opening. We ended up on the 6th floor of an industrial warehouse at Six Keyz Gallery, which houses a mini-half pipe for skateboarders. The exhibition was a series of mixed media paintings and a site-specific work by Lies 1, a French graffiti artist. The show is called C1V1L1SAT1ON and the paintings are beautiful, in particular the first in the series. There's a certain explosive, optimistic energy to them. It was definitely worth the trek to see them. In the next room, DJs Doze, Sam1r and Swamy were spinning a funky vibe. The crowd was much funkier than I've seen in Hong Kong in a long, long while and a bit eclectic. Ran into BK, whom I haven't seen in years as well as CMY, one of the trainers from Pure.