“Art is a painkiller for those who suffer. It is the ultimate expression of imagination through compassion: when someone suffers, you suffer together.”
For three decades, Han Hsu Tung has managed to stop time. With his exquisite wooden sculptures, Tung freezes his subjects in mid-motion, pixelating limbs, faces, and entire bodies as if they’re buffering, awaiting the moment in which they may move once again.
The Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art announces the location and artists for Survival Kit 16: House of See-More, curated by Slavs and Tatars and Michał Grzegorzek.
The exhibition opens with a large mural depicting a colourful pop world inhabited by dolls. Little by little, everything unfolds in a visual, double journey, at once seductive and repulsive, funny and frightening, where subject and object combine.
The artist’s terrain of erotica-botanica exists at the edge of form and takes on a surreal nature in a recent residency at Dragon Hill in the South of France.
In large-scale minimalist compositions, street artist Taquen covers the sides of houses, hospitals, and street barriers with reminders of strength and mutual understanding.