Tang Kwok-hin is a Hong Kong mixed-media artist with a Master of Fine Arts from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2008. Tang’s work tends to be based on “daily and personal contexts to narrate hidden stories” to blend the boundaries of art and human conflicts to express the concerns of human conflicts and their effects on the surroundings. Tang’s work deals with own experiences and personal conflicts such as “growth, inheritance, locality, freedom, urbanization, consumption, nature, politics, norms, existence, etc…”
04:45 PM (2013)
Glass, paper, wood, transparency and adhesive C-print cutout
19.685 x 19.685 inches (50 x 50 cm)
These themes and stories in Tang’s work are based on his own background growing up in a village in Kam Tin which explains his relationship between urbanization and nature. Through his surroundings and introspections of his life, Tang uses his work as a “comprehensive approach to reveal emotions, thoughts and essences deep down at particular moments among chaos” in his life.
Tang uses this connection between art and human conflicts to make collages out of premade objects and materials to give them new meanings by way of exploration and reconstruction.
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drawing into space 