ArtAsiaPacific Magazine - July - August 2023

In this issue

The world around us informs how we make art, and why. In this issue, we hear from artists of multiple generations and geographies whose environments, whether urban or rural, digital or analog, frame the urgent topics that drive their practices. For our cover Feature, associate editor Pamela Wong caught up with Hong Kong artist Wong Ping to talk about the delirious effects of dating apps on society and our personal desires for relationships. In our second Feature, writer Dương Mạnh Hùng and the artist Truong Cong Tung discuss Truong’s embrace of materials gathered from the forest as well as his use of found video footage and photographs. In our ongoing collaboration with Asia Art Archive, we look back at the year of 1990 when artists in Hong Kong were considering their experiments in video art at the intersection of gender politics. Our Up Close selections spotlight recent projects by Simryn Gill, Leung Chi Wo, and Oum Jeongsoon. The 50th edition of Inside the Burger Collection is an interview by Mitchell Anderson with fellow artist Ebecho Muslimova about the central character featured in her paintings. In Essays, Kerstin Winking casts a look back at the Sharjah Art Foundation’s March Meeting 2023, while Dondie Casanova recounts exhibitions that address the pending demise of the Philippines’s uniquely ornamented minibuses. In Profiles, Clara Tang explores the life and practice of Daniel Lie and their interest in organic transformation and collaborating with “other-than-human-beings.” Han Mengyun penned the One on One about the influence of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak on her artistic practice. In Reviews, we take a close look at the ambitions of the 14th Gwangju Biennale, “soft and weak like water,” to see how it measures up with other recent explorations of its central motif. Finally, in Where I Work, Oliver Clasper visits multimedia artist Andrew Luk’s studio in Hong Kong as Luk prepares to embark on a new chapter in his practice.