ARTISTS TO WATCH 2025

As the Prestige team geared up for Hong Kong's annual art-athon, we also set ourselves the task of identifying the emerging talents from eight East Asian countries, who should all be registering on your cultural radar this year. The following 16 virtuosi made our final cut.

SINGAPORE TIFFANY LOY

Drawn to textiles as an industrial designer, in particular the innate contradictions of thread that both demand microscopic attention and reward macroscopic vision, Tiffany Loy delved into weaving at Kyoto's Kawashima Textile School and the Royal College of Art in London. Her works have since been exhibited in Singapore and internationally, in venues such as the Singapore Art Museum, the Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art and La Triennale di Milano, as well as Milan Design Week and Dubai Art Week. At this year's contemporary art showcase, SEA Focus in Singapore, Loy presented a new collection made up of pliable sculptures.

Constructed from intricately designed interlocking strands that transition into other shades and patterns, they invite viewers to visually trace the threads, examining the details that make up the poetic whole. The largest piece, Plied Colour IV 2048, which is almost 1.7m high, continues Loy's exploration of tension and depth through the braiding of 2,048 strands of hand-dyed abaca, a fibre made from banana-tree bark; the number of strands refers to a single prime number multiplied by itself 10 times.

Loy seeks to test viewers' perception in her upcoming works. "I'm curious about the limitations of our eyes," she says. How will she be able to convey a concept if it can't be seen? It's a challenge, but Loy says, "It's something I'm quite excited to explore." Loy is currently represented by the fine art gallery Sullivan+Strumpf.

KHAIRULDDIN WAHAB

At the heart of Khairulddin Wahab's art is his research into colonial history, global trade routes, indigenous culture and how each of these intersect with the natural world.