Ho Rui An: Ultimate Coin Test China High-Speed Rail
18 July–10 October 202618 Jul–10 Oct 2026
Ho Rui An’s video Ultimate Coin Test China High-Speed Rail (2018) offers a playful critique of China’s rapid modernisation and the fetish of stability within the chaos of late capitalism. Ho appropriates a viral internet phenomenon, in which passengers on Chinese bullet trains film coins standing perfectly upright on their edges at speeds exceeding 300km/h, proving the incredible smoothness and engineering stability of China’s rail network. His video highlights how hyper-modern infrastructure projects symbolise global economic acceleration, in contrast with the often overlooked labour, geopolitical reach, and capital circulation that fuel it.
Ho Rui An is an artist and writer working in the intersections of contemporary art, cinema, performance, and theory. Through lectures, essays, and films, his research examines the relations between labour, technology, and capital across governance systems in our global age. He has shown in the 2026 Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale, 2023 and 2020 Shanghai Biennales, 2020 Bangkok Art Biennale, 2018 Gwangju Biennale, and 2014 Kochi-Muziris Biennale; also in Apophenia, Interruptions: Artists and Artificial Intelligence, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2024; Kunsthalle Wien, 2021; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, 2021 and 2017; Lonely Vectors, Singapore Art Museum, 2022; and The Breathing of Maps, Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media, 2018. He lives in Singapore and Berlin.
