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Meet Nicole Wong


The Hari Hong Kong launches The Hari Art Prize in collaboration with A Space For Art to set the stage for young talents to unleash their artistic cells to the full, contributing to propel the vitality of the art scene in Hong Kong.

 

The Hari Hong Kong announced at a special award ceremony on March 13 that, the first runner-up prize went to Nicole Wong for her floor-to-ceiling suncatcher curtain called “The Definition of Rain”. She was awarded a luxurious two-day, one-night Corner Room Package at The Hari Hong Kong, inclusive of daily breakfast and a dining experience for two at authentic Italian restaurant Lucciola or modern Japanese restaurant Zoku.

 

Over 600 Hong Kong-based self-taught artists and recent art graduates within the first 10 years of their art career applied for the second annual art prize, more than double the number of applicants for the inaugural 2023 art prize.

 

Read all about her below…

 

 

How does your life and the world around you influence your art, and how does art influence your life?


I adopt a process-driven approach to investigate philosophical questions associated with time, the tenuous connections between words and objects, and the limits of communication. Hopefully, through my practice, I can take a closer “look” at these intangible concepts which we live with and within but cannot see.

 

Every artist hopes their work can accomplish something or make someone feel a certain way. What do you want your art to do?

To me, art is something always in between—universal and personal, fictional and non-fictional, unearthly and familiar. My practice welcomes interpretations from viewers when it’s on display. For myself, the working process is always a form of documentation of the little things that happen in my life. They can be the starting point of a piece but not necessarily the context of the resulting work.

What mediums do you gravitate most towards and why?


I like to incorporate everyday objects into my works to create mundane scenarios that look familiar to audiences. By displaying these household items and manufactured objects as part of an artwork in a gallery space, it raises questions about the relationship between a sign’s physical form and its meaning, asking, “Where is the artwork actually located?”

 

What are some of the difficulties you face while creating art?

Working beyond the bounds of a single medium, it is a challenge to create a work each time that requires learning new skills and techniques, experimenting with unfamiliar materials, and sometimes collaborating with experts in other industries. Sometimes the result is not perfect; creating an artwork also demands tremendous patience to accept failures and persistence to constantly make decisions throughout the creative process.

Why did you feel it was important to enter The Hari Art Prize?


The Hari Art Prize provides a non-institutional space for artists to exhibit, putting our works in the spotlight during art week.

 

What are your thoughts on the other pieces?

The shortlisted artworks are all recent creations. As a general reflection of Hong Kong art, with paintings, sculptures, and installations, they carry a variety of themes regarding form, narrative, and materiality, demonstrating how Hong Kong-based artists have challenged—and been challenged by—working in this city.

 

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