Amelia Johnson Contemporary presents FRESH, an exciting exhibition showcasing the work of some of Hong Kong’s best and most promising contemporary artists. The exhibition highlights some of the rising stars of Hong Kong’s contemporary art scene, offering new and experienced collectors alike a timely opportunity to acquaint themselves with this much-neglected sector of Chinese contemporary art.
Established artist Chris Lo’s eerily beautiful ceramic works deal with
the transformation of violence, depicting industrial clamps and the
objects crushed within them. Three upcoming stars of the Hong Kong
art scene Ho Sin Tung, Tang Kwok Hin and Elise Lai Yuen-Shan will also
be highlighted in this exhibition. All three are students from the
prestigious Chinese University of Hong Kong, Ho Sin Tung and Tang Kwok
Hin having recently graduated and Elise Lai currently completing the
final year of her undergraduate degree. Ho Sin Tung’s mixed media
works, collectively entitled The Map of Spain, are subjective maps
depicting dreamlike scenarios that are founded on the artist’s
interaction with her environment. Tang Kwok Hin uses ready made
images taken from miscellaneous sources such as Google, cartoons, wine
bottles, beer cans…Seeming random images are selected and removed from
their environments, repositioned in new stage-like settings and then
photographed to produce powerful, haunting images. Elise Lai’s
delicately coloured painting- based works ostensibly reference daily
life, blurring the boundaries between passive observation and voyeurism.
