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15/3/2015

Hong Kong Redefined

Asia Society Hong Kong Center, Hong Kong

Hong Kong is a dense and an intense city, both in terms of its architecture, its infrastructures, and its economic and social realities. It is also quite unique, not only because of the cultural mix resulting from its history but also because of the mix of green and concrete jungle. This panel invites four native Hong Kong artists, with divergent yet complimentary practices to comment on how the urban context has inspired them as artists. In his recent series, South Ho represents the mirages and the demands the city generates for its inhabitants, notably from the real estate point of view and the related assessment of success. Sim Chan literally takes the point of view of the city dweller and depicts the visual experience of looking at the sky in Hong Kong. Stanley Sui as an architect has participated to form this urban context and as an artist he created studios for inter-disciplinary collaborations. Movana Chen currently works on a series that explores how to get connected and related to a city notably through her performances and knitting human forms from books selected by people she meets on her travels. Laure Raibaut will ask the panellists about their inspiration, on how to create and how to live as an artist in the city, and how this has shaped one’s practice.

Sim Chan (b.1987) graduated from Hong Kong Art School, majoring in Painting. Sim’s work is a tangible expression of the desire to unlock and blur boundaries of forms within the city. He has worked on depictions of the local cityscape and the urban architecture intensively. His work is a compilation of his own observations, reminiscences and tactile senses towards the ever-changing city. Sim was awarded “40under40” global creative talent by Perspective Magazine in 2013. In the same year, he was commissioned to create a public art installation at Hong Kong Arts Centre. Sim’s work has been exhibited in different cities such as Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, Taipei, Singapore, Tokyo, Thailand and Melbourne. His artworks have been collected by private collectors in Hong Kong and abroad.

Movana Chen is a Hong Kong-based artist who studied fashion design at the London College of Fashion and received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the RMIT University in Hong Kong. Movana started her knitting projects in 2004, her work is a multi-disciplinary fusion of media, fashion, performance, installation and sculpture which has been presented at different exhibitions, art festivals and events globally, including those in Hong Kong, London, Paris, Seoul, Beijing, Shanghai, Sicily, Melbourne and Rotterdam. Her recent solo projects include at ArtisTree (Hong Kong, 2013), Chinart LaGalerie (Paris, 2011), Shin Hwa Gallery (Hong Kong, 2009), Pekin Fine Arts (Beijing, 2008). She has also participated in group exhibitions at Frankston arts center (Melbourne, 2015), Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (Rotterdam, the Netherlands, 2014), CODA Museum (Apeldoorn, the Netherlands, 2013), MoA Museum of Art Seoul National University (Korea, 2012), Escape Louis Vuitton (Hong Kong and Singapore, 2012), Gyeonggi MoMA (Korea, 2009) and MoCA Shanghai Museum (Shanghai, 2008). Movana was one of the 30 finalists of the 2011 and 2012 Sovereign Asian Art Prize. Her art works have been collected by the Hong Kong Heritage Museum, Louis Vuitton and private collectors from Hong Kong, China and France.

Ho Sui Nam South (South Ho) a Hong Kong-based photographer, explores the societal concerns of his native metropolis through the camera. While his earlier works were inspired by personal experiences and states of mind, the artist has gradually wandered into commenting on the society and era he lives in. Through his lens, he depicts the buildings containing the potential homes as beautiful, objects of desire, but also distant. They appear cold and the reflections of their lights in the dark waters are somehow unsettling. According to the artist, the focus of the image is “further than infinity,” a distant symbol of the unattainability of the buildings portrayed. His photos are displayed in light boxes, which allude to the neon lights and billboards used to advertise and create desire. To the artist, the pursuit of material goals is in vain and valuing money or real estate over self-fulfillment is superficial.

Stanley Siu grew up and studied in New Zealand, returning to Hong Kong after graduation. Since then he has practiced as an architect on a number of residential, commercial, master planning, cultural and sustainability projects in Hong Kong and China. Stanley’s professional activities and interests are split equally between architecture and contemporary art. In 2012 Stanley founded Daydreamers Design, an art &design collaboration constantly engaged in the art, design, and architectural scene locally and globally. Under his leadership, Daydreamers Design won the Gold Award for “Rising Moon” presented at the 2013 Lantern Wonderland competition organized by The Hong Kong Tourism Board. In 2014, Stanley became partner at100ft Park, an artist run space aiming to provide an open platform for the local young artists to share their creative thoughts. In the same year, Stanley received the Young Architect Awards 2013 organized by the Hong Kong Institute of Architects; a prestigious award that honours and acknowledges the talents and contribution of Stanley’s achievements in the field of Art and Architecture.

Laure Raibaut is an expert in Chinese Contemporary art. She was trained as an archaeologist of China and earned MA from SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies) in London and the Sorbonne in Paris. She started her career after attending CAFA (Central Academy of Fine Arts) in Beijing and worked for Platform China Art Institute. In 2007, she opened Chinese Contemporary's New York space. As the art market shifted towards Asia, she joined Schoeni Art gallery in Hong Kong, another of the leading galleries in the world for Chinese contemporary art, established in 1992. Laure launched the Asian Contemporary art department for Bonhams, in Hong Kong in 2013 and has since joined Christie's where she is Vice-President, Senior Specialist and Head of Sale for Alexandra House, for the Asian contemporary art department. Her global experience allows her to develop relationships with artists, dealers, curators and collectors and to keep expanding her wide knowledge and ability to assess the market. A French national, Laure is fluent in English, Mandarin and Spanish.

Image: Sim Chan, SimSky No.47, 93.2 x 82.5 cm, Oil on Lycra with handmade wooden frame, 2012

Afternoon Discussion with Artists Sim Chan, Movana Chen, South Ho, Stanley Siu, and Laure Raibut (Moderator)
Discussion 3pm - 4pm

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