Published in the October/November issue of Artforum.
”If Orpheus’s attempt to resurrect Eurydice is undone by his desire to see her form, her shape, then what can be said about Hong Kong’s desire to archive its rapidly vanishing cultural history? Situated at the center of the exhibition was a 2021 fiberglass replica of Jimmy Keung Chi Ming’s 1997 statue of Lo Ting, a species of merperson said to be the true indigenous ancestor of the Hong Kong people.”
ArtReview Asia: Review of Henry Shum
Published in the Winter issue of ArtReview Asia.
”In these canvases, we also see hints at more subconscious terrain. Shum’s figures are translucent and embryonic, their presence ambiguous among trees, mountains and lakes. As in a dream, we wonder how we arrived at certain scenes: in Revolution of Night we witness one figure holding another around the neck, unclear whether they are escaping danger or whether a crime is being perpetrated.”
Tatler Hong Kong: Logging On
Published in the April 2020 issue of Tatler Hong Kong. To read the full article, click here.
“As we become more dependent on digital interactions, the once-distinct worlds of offline and online blur and collide, simultaneously birthing rich, virtual secondary lives and inviting possibilities for transgressions and restrictions.”
Artomity: Feature on Ellen Pau
Published in the Winter 2019 issue of Artomity. To read the full article, click here.
“Pau’s work and practice have always been somewhat ambiguous, but she places the responsibility on the viewer to understand the implications of this ambiguity. In most if not all of her works, there are layered, buried double meanings, framed by her explorations into metaphors around the body and technology and, more recently, our psychological, emotional responses to environment and society.”
ArtAsiaPacific: Christine Sun Kim
Published Sep/Oct issue of ArtAsiaPacific. To read the full article, click here.
“ . . . Despite being told by those around her that she could not receive or transmit noise, Kim found her own pathways to sound through sensorial experiments, such as a game in which Deaf kids scream in enclosed spaces to feel the tones trembling within hair, skin, and body.”