About Artist BB
I am a young visual artist based in Hong Kong. I received a degree in Fine Arts from the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). My creations mainly narrate my own vulnerable emotions through drawings and ready-made objects in this bizarre and dazzling era. In the age of information explosion, our emotions are often consumed quickly and repeatedly. It is like when someone using dating apps and having one-night stands with different people. People who had intimate relationships just come and go.What follows is a sense of loss and loneliness that can hardly be described by words. Therefore, I often aim to recreate abstract emotions and atmospheres through drawings on cloth and paper, and create an installation with daily objects.
I am currently creating works again with daily objects which like to capture the feeling of being forgotten, missing somebody, loneliness and shaming. I often use daily and ready-made objects in my creations because I get along with them the most comfortable. Occasionally the state of their appearance makes me feel that they exude inexplicable sadness and sentiments., such as two shirts hanging together, soap being used to a hollow, two barely touching pillows, etc. I seek out their possibilities by getting along with them.
In addition to attempting to face up and sort out my own struggles, I also hope to search for people who feel the same in this city through my art. I think this can make each other's pain heal slowly when we know there is someone feeling the same in the same city. I hope that trivial, touching and humane traces; and the corelations of cultural symbols in my works provide a fascinating aesthetic for the public, which can resonate with the delicate and complex emotions of people.
I am always looking for the audience who would give me a hug gently and whisper “Yes, I feel the same.”
我1999年生於香港,2021年畢業於香港中文大學藝術系。我的創作主要是通過素描和現成物裝置來訴說自己在這個光怪陸離的時代裡脆弱的情感。在信息流通的時代,我們的情緒往往被快速且反復消耗,有如使用約會應用程序並與不同的人發生一夜情。親密卻陌生的人生命中不斷出現和消失,隨之而來的是難以用言語形容的失落和孤獨。 因此,我試圖通過在布和紙上的素描,或用日常物裝置,來再現抽象的情感和氣氛。
我目前正在繼續對日常物使用的研究,捕捉被遺忘、想念某人、孤獨、羞辱和壓抑天性的感受。 日常和現成的東西經常在我的創作被使用,因為我和它們相處得很舒服。 偶爾它們出現的狀態散發著的悲傷,比如兩件晾在一起的襯衫,被用到一個空心肥皂,和兩個幾乎接觸的枕頭等,仿佛提示著已經離開的人,誘使我在與他們的相處中尋找他們的可能性。
除了試圖正視和梳理自己的掙扎,我也希望通過我的藝術在這個城市尋找同病相憐的人,並讓彼此的痛苦慢慢癒合。 希望那些瑣碎、感動,人為的痕跡能引起人們微妙而復雜的情感共鳴。
我在等待著有觀眾給我一個溫柔的擁抱,並在耳邊低語:「我也是這樣的。」
Exhibitions & Projects
Present
Co-Founder of the artist collective Gabby & Darren
Artist in Residency Scheme in Fu Tak Building
2023
Art Basel 2023:Growing Art represented by 1a space @Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre
2022
原味計劃 Original Project @WURE AREA
Per.Platform Festival #3 Fluidity and Impermanence @Tomorrow Maybe, Eaton Hotel
日力 Day Day to Day Day @Grotto Fine Arts
Art Central 2022:Made in Hong Kong @Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre
你恢復得像我們之間從來沒有發生過一樣 Make Out Like It Never Happened And We Were Nothing @Mist Gallery
2021
出爐展 Fresh Trend 2021 @Hong Kong City Hall
菠蘿腸仔用牙籤拮住 This is How We Dance Before The Apocalypse @Museum of Arts, CUHK
Missing You (Curation and Exhibition) @The Art of CUHK 2021
我真恨我這雙眼高手低的手 Half The Time I Regret It (Curation and Exhibition) @Hui Gallery
今晚有冇人喺附近 After You (Duo-solo Exhibition) @Ch'ien Mu Library
2020
療傷洞穴 The Healing Cave @OurGallery
2019
城市浪漫垃圾 Romantic Rubbish: Locality and Social Practice @The Art of CUHK 2019
Awards and Qualifications
2022
Master of Arts in Visual Arts Education and Creative Practice with Distinction, EDUHK
Dean's Honor List, EDUHK
Targeted Taught Postgraduate Program Fellowship, EDUHK
Scholarship of MA(VAECP), EDUHK
2021
Bachelor of Arts in Fine Arts with Honors (First Class), CUHK
Dean's honor List 2020/21, Faculty of Arts, CUHK
Y.S. Mok 3-Dimension Creative Award, The Art of CUHK 2021
Y.S. Mok 3-Dimension Creative Grant, The Art of CUHK 2021
Mr. Kelvin Chan Scholarship for the Department of Fine Arts, New Asia College, CUHK
Cheung’s Fine Arts Award, The Art of CUHK 2021
2020
Dean's honor List, Faculty of Arts, CUHK
Head's List (Merit), New Asia College, CUHK
Friends of the Art Museum Prize, Friends of the Art Museum, CUHK
Ting Yen Yung Memorial Award, The Art of CUHK 2021
AIA Scholarship, New Asia College, CUHK
2019
Dean's honor List, Faculty of Arts, CUHK
Head's List (Merit), New Asia College, CUHK