Winning Artists
The prize’s esteemed judging panel featured Dr. Aron, A Space For Art’s founder and director Charlie Smedley, TASCHEN’s Asia retail director Frankie Ho, Ben Brown Fine Arts’ managing director Amanda Hon and independent curator Anqi Li.
To a backdrop of selected artworks created by the art prize’s finalists at the ceremony at The Hari Hong Kong yesterday, Dr. Aron paid homage to Hong Kong’s remarkable emerging art scene and praised the “incredible breadth and depth” of the artists’ submissions.
“The judging panel was wowed by Chan Ka Kiu’s ‘Tickle Tickle’, featuring a clever script authored by the artist and a moving image collage of footage from pop culture, home pet videos, and AI-generated content,” Dr Aron said. “Characterised with a sense of humour that won us over, this work imaginatively explores the concept of dogs possessing hands, provoking thought on the nature of both. Chan playfully juxtaposes seemingly unrelated scenarios from daily life, reenacting the intangible and bizarre details that often go unnoticed.”
“Nicole Wong’s 10.5 square-metre ‘The Definition of Rain’ is stunning, resembling a state where time stands still, and capturing the frozen scene of falling rain. Translating the dictionary entry of “rain” into binary code, opalite and glass beads represent 1s and 0s of the coding language, strung together into 105 strings of the suncatcher curtain,” he added.
“Wu Jiaru’s ‘spillover_’painting series is striking, merging abstract and figurative elements and inviting viewers to contemplate the subtle expressions of violence in our world.”
