# @sothebys on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DYYFGlBDbFt
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/65719270-sothebys-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-05-15T22:34:35.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Sotheby's (@sothebys) — https://gondola.cc/sothebys

## Caption

Welcome to Ozymandias: Myths of the Near Future, the new exhibition now on view at #SothebysHongKong. It’s a Mad Max-esque world where meaning is forged in the wake of collapse.

In Ozymandias, the distressed, salvaged garments of Greg Lauren enter into dialogue with the spectral portraits of Eugène Carrière, Émile-Antoine Bourdelle and Georges Dorignac, alongside fragmentary heads from Ancient Greece, Rome and Egypt. Here, beauty is no longer pristine; it is weathered, patinated, and scarred. 

The exhibition draws inspiration from Percy Bysshe Shelley’s vision of ruin and the beauty of imperfection in his 1818 sonnet Ozymandias, and J. G. Ballard’s proposition that dystopian catastrophe does not end culture, but remakes it.

Open 15 May - 5 June inside the Sotheby’s Maison in Hong Kong. Plan your visit at the link in our bio.

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