All posts tagged: PHD Group

Christopher K Ho 何恩懷

Published by Brady Ng

I Am a 70-Year-Old British Sculptor /PHD Group /Sep 14 – Nov 30, 2024 / Christopher K Ho isn’t a septuagenarian; he’s a couple of decades years younger than that. Ho isn’t British either; he was born in Hong Kong, and his upbringing and education were primarily in the United States. He’s an artist who splits his time between Hong Kong and the US, and an arts administrator who is the executive director of Asia Art Archive. For his show at PHD Group, I Am a 70-Year-Old British Sculptor, Ho made 30 brass and aluminium sculptures forming one series, Return to Order, over the past three years. The full set was shown alongside 10 new drawings, each of which corresponds to one of the hefty three-dimensional works. Ho’s creative process behind the artworks was anchored by an architectural exercise that starts with nine squares in a grid. By beginning with an arrangement of three rows or columns of three squares, architects make adjustments to introduce complexity to a space. The squares can be resized, reshaped …

Noteworthy Shows in Hong Kong Autumn / Winter ’23 Edition

Published by Aaina Bhargava

“Hong Kong is back!” seems to be the city’s official PR motto since quarantine for incoming travellers to the city was essentially abolished in October, and restrictions were dropped. If the succession of gala fundraisers and exhibition openings and the general year-end frenzy is anything to go by, the slogan applies to the city’s art scene, which seems to be overcompensating for its dearth of activity over the past two years. There were numerous shows and events last autumn, from Asia Art Archive and Para Site auction fundraisers to blockbuster exhibitions like Yayoi Kusama: 1945 to Now at M+ to smaller exhibitions such as John Batten’s showcase at Ping Pong to online initiatives such as the launch of David Clarke’s digital archive. Here are eight noteworthy exhibitions. Behind Your Eyelid, Pipilotti Rist at Tai Kwun ContemporaryTai Kwun Contemporary’s blockbuster exhibition surpassed expectations, providing an experience that cultural institutions should aspire to. Serving as a mini survey of Rist’s practice, the show featured a number of highlights from the artist’s career, including I’m not the Girl who …

Virtue Village

Published by Brady Ng

Even in the most diverse communities, clusters of people must share culture, space and experiences for bonds to form. As individuals mingle and interact with each other, their identities are sculpted by external forces. We may conform to norms established by others, or rebel to smash the status quo and shatter homogeneity.  Village Porn, the first major solo presentation by the artist duo Virtue Village, formed by Joseph Chen and Cas Wong, deploys the visual grammar of BDSM, auto repair and shibari, layered with urban grime, queerness and anal sex, all dropped into PHD Group’s raw space in Wanchai. The show started with RUSH (all works 2022), a digital print that spans more than 5.5 metres to present an orgiastic mishmash of sparse references pointing in different conceptual directions, with a couple of visuals that thread through other works in the show – flames and hearts.  More interesting was the physical presentation of RUSH at PHD. A shallow bed of dirt ran along the wall on which the print hung, with several green plants situated …