All posts tagged: Chan Ka Kiu

DE SARTHE at Art Basel Hong Kong

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Galleries 3C08 /Chan Ka Kiu, Hou Jianan, Lov-Lov, Ma Sibo, Mak2, Caison Wang, Wang Jiajia, Wang Xin, Zhong Wei / Encounters EN9 /Lu Yang / Art Basel Hong KongConvention and Exhibition CentreMar 26 – 30, 2025 desarthe.com DE SARTHE returns to Art Basel Hong Kong 2025 with a curated presentation at Art Basel Hong Kong’s Galleries sector, an interactive installation by Lu Yang at the fair’s Encounters sector. In Galleries, the gallery will be participating with a nine-artist presentation, featuring a selection of works on canvas and paper, video, and multimedia artworks by the gallery’s roster of represented and collaborating artists, including Chan Ka Kiu, Hou Jianan, Lov-Lov, Ma Sibo, Mak2, Caison Wang, Wang Jiajia, Wang Xin, and Zhong Wei. Of particular note is a newly created interactive video game by Hong Kong-based artist Mak2 that visitors can play at the booth. Under the new cultural narrative forming amongst contemporary artists from Asia, cultivated by the emerging phenomenon of digital diaspora, the presented artists investigate the agents of identity in the post-technological era. Following Mak2’s large-scale installation Copy of …

Gloria Awareness

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Sickroom / Hong Kong / Jun 16 – Jul 17, 2022 / Yang Jiang / “Sickroom” is a term used in Japanese to describe a house in which a murder has been committed. In those who hear of this term, it creates a psychological predisposition without an actual experience, and emphasises a sense of passiveness. The recently formed experimental conceptual art collective Gloria Awareness used this concept of the sickroom as a starting point for its imagination. The exhibition of the same name examined human cognitive mechanisms, with the six exhibiting artists exploring how to cope with the sickroom. By analysing the process of psychological association, Amy Tong and Nicole Wong both set about exploring the conditions of a sickroom, with the former focusing on its cause and the latter attempting to propose a solution. Tong’s video This Is A Dog Reading A Newspaper (2022) had a sense of déjà vu from broadcast news – the voiceover came from found footage of someone teaching mnemonic strategies, borrowing their nonsensical nature to explain the completely invisible …