Iwasaki Takahiro
Born in 1975 in Hiroshima, Japan. Based in his home city, Iwasaki has made miniature landscapes out of common items such as towels, cleaning brushes and bookmarks. Many of his works were inspired by the history of Hiroshima city that was rapidly reconstructed after its destruction by A-bomb dropped in 1945. Reflecting the devastation and recovery of Hiroshima, Iwasaki has been aware of fragility and transformation of modern urban landscape.
His recent solo exhibitions include “Turned Upside Down, It’s a Forest”, Japan Pavilion in the 57th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (2017) and “In Focus”, Aron Gallery, Asia Society, New York (2015). His works are in the collections of international institutions such as Kadist Art Foundation, San Francisco, USA; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia; and Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia.
Jung Yeondoo
Jung Yeondoo
Jung Yeondoo lives and works in Seoul. His creative practice focuses on photography, video and installation that involve the direct and indirect performance of his subjects, affectionately looking at human life between fiction and reality. He draws upon the everyday lives of people; as he shares his artistic concepts with those involved, he playfully explores the boundary between visual art and performance.
Jung has recently been creating a series of multi-channel video works that document the perspectives of individuals who have experienced certain social or political events in recent Asian history, including A Girl in Tall Shoes (2018), Classic and New (2018), and Noise Quartet (2019). His works have been displayed at, among others, the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul (2020); the Seoul Museum of Art (2019); the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (2019); MAC/VAL, France (2018); and the Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Germany (2018).
Image courtesy: Jung Yeondoo
Sarah Lai
“Born in 1983, lives and works in Hong Kong. Lai has explored to translate various unique textures into different forms and media. The subjects in her paintings and installations are seemingly banal and mundane, however, she carefully depicts the power, politics and historical narratives behind these ordinary objects.
Lai’s recent exhibitions include “Interval in Space” hosted by Osage Art Foundation, Hong Kong (2017); “Let the night breeze send away yesterday’s dreams” at Surplus Space, Wuhan, China (2017); “Against the Light: Sampling in Two Cities” at FY Foundation in Shenzhen, China (2017); “In Stasis”, Para Site in Art Basel Hong Kong, Hong Kong (2015) and “Spotting the Light onto a Light”, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong (2013). Her work is in the collection of Hong Kong Museum of Art.”
