Art Criticism
Fairytale-esque Estrangement in Shin Youngmi’s Artwork
An ecofeminist critique of South Korean artist Shin Youngmi’s collection with Atelier Aki at Art Central in Hong Kong in March 2024. This piece won first prize for the inaugural Art Criticism Recognition Programme award organized by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council.
The Art of Memory in Elah Wong Tsoi Wai’s Work
In the summer of 2025, Hong Kong-based artist Elah Wong Tsoi Wai showcased 18 pieces of her work at Gallery EXIT. This is her first solo exhibition since she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in Visual Arts from Hong Kong Baptist University. I am drawn to her paintings that consist of a static, frozen-in-time composition that looks as though the artist has simply left it unfinished. These works evoke an impressionist style of fragmentation, undermined by the quiet nostalgia of faded memories.
Haunting Duality in Dominique Fung’s artwork
Dominique Fung’s inaugural solo exhibition “Beneath the Golden Canopy” in Hong Kong featured a range of creative expressions. While the artist had rejected the connotations associated with the canons of Surrealism and the uncanny in her interview with Prestige Magazine on March 20, 2025, I believe there is credit in revisiting these traditions and vernaculars to foreground and redefine power, femininity, and aesthetics in the modern-day era through a transcultural and transdisciplinary perspective.