curated by Lucas Morin, at Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai

“‘𝘔𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘪𝘭𝘥’is composed of eight sent postcards, murmuring the fragments of ‘home’ while the segments of landscapes and scenes assemble into a new place provided by a wild boar—a oneness of the wild and our home. Like the story of ‘The Blind Men and the Elephant,’ it’s easy to mistake the part for the whole; each postcard offers a unique perspective yet contributes to a larger narrative. To the artist, wild boars symbolize the wild spirit of liberty, fertility, and bravery under oppression in her paintings.”i

Courtesy of Art Jameel. Photography by Daniella Baptista.

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In ‘𝙏𝙝𝙧𝙚𝙚 𝙏𝙞𝙧𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙞𝙜𝙚𝙧’, artists encourage us to view our cities and landscapes from a primarily four-legged perspective. Bringing together more than 40 artists and collectives, drawing from politics, history, economics and urbanism, the exhibition is a playful yet serious exploration of human-animal relationships in these shared geographies. In cities designed primarily for humans, radically separated from nature, kept captive for food or show, animals are often seen as either pets or pests. Despite this, animals find ways to prosper in urban gaps and find communities that welcome them. They resist control and management strategies, compelling us to think about what coexistence truly means.  (Extracted from Curatorial Statement at https://jameelartscentre.org/whats-on/three-tired-tigers/)

Shifting Fields: Contemporary Chinese Painting, curated by Xiaoze Xie

January 30th – March 15th, 2024, Stanford Art Gallery, 419 Lasuen Mall, Stanford

Installation images by Damon Andrew Casarez

Shifting Fields: Contemporary Chinese Painting brings together a diverse group of works by ten accomplished and promising artists from mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Spanning multiple genres and incorporating unconventional materials, the forty-nine works on view offer but a glimpse of the concerns and talents of young artists working within and beyond both Chinese and Western painting traditions. Curated by Xiaoze Xie, the Paul L. & Phyllis Wattis Professor of Art at Stanford University, this exhibition is a unique opportunity to see and learn about a new generation of emerging artists working today. Participating artists: 鄭農軒 CHENG Nung-Hsuan, 鄭帛囪 CHENG Po-Tsung, 蔡鈺娟 CHOI Yuk-kuen Bouie, 鄧大非 DENG Dafei, 方梓亮 FONG Tsz-leong Argus, 郝量 HAO Liang, 黃海欣 HUANG Hai-Hsin, 邬建安 WU Jian’an, 闫珩 YAN Heng, and 張珂 ZHANG Ke

Hybrid Nature

Alisan Fine Art New York

9 Jan 2025 to 1 Mar 2025

Aurora 朝霞

2024, acrylic on wood, 151.5 x 60.4 cm

In ancient times, there was a saying, “朝霞不出門，晚霞行千里” (one does not leave the door when there is aurora, one can travel a thousand miles when there is evening glow). “朝霞” refers to the reflective light on the clouds in the morning, which has been used by peasants since ancient times as an indicator for forecasting rain throughout the day.

This painting raised a question of what are invisible and absent in present time. It contemplates the missing elements such as the source of light, the objects to be fished or airdropped, a true shelter that can protect us, and the ultimate destination of our path.

The tree grows alongside the heartless fence, symbolically bridging together fragmented moments to form this landscape. I imagine that the tree represents Aurora, the goddess of dawn, who brings us genuine strength and hope to confront the challenges in the upcoming times.

From the ‘Sonic-Visual interplay’ 

curated by John Batten and Joyce Tang, organised by Hong Kong New Music Ensemble

Cattle Depot Artist Village, 2024

Like Water Like Shadow
2024
Single-channel digital video (8mins 2sec)
carousel slide projector (80 collaged vintage slides), lamp of shadow

The installation was composed of three intertwined parts, each moving at its own pace. Through the captivating music of ‘Like Water’ by Bun-Ching Lam from 1997, the audience’s attention was guided and connected. Their gaze was drawn to an experimental stop-motion projection, while getting lost in the nostalgic beats and a collection of 80 vintage Hong Kong slides displayed through a carousel slide projector. The presence of the ‘lamp of shadow’ brought a sense of real-life experience, evoking feelings of both longing and intimacy. It reminded us of the passage of time and the fleeting nature of light.

Bun-Ching Lam, composer
Bouie Choi, artist

Performers:
William Lane, viola
Stephenie Ng, clarinet
Loo Sze-wang, sheng

Nurturing Nodes in the Nook of an Odd Sock

Curated by Yutaka Inagawa, at Art Gallery Miyauchi, Hiroshima, Japan

20 April to 30 June 2024
Organized by The Miyauchi Art Foundation

By weaving together artworks with interventions by artist-curator Yutaka Inagawa—including a bold pairing/grouping of different artworks, sculptural pedestals, mural works, colorful trimmed timbers, Chat GPT-created avatars, and Junkichi Kageyama’s ‘Samba of Insects’ from the Collection of Art Gallery Miyauchi—along with various structural and spatial adjustments— the exhibition becomes a dynamic mash-up of artwork by the exhibiting artists, in-between entities created by Inagawa, and the architectural nuances of the space.

This creative amalgamation transforms the exhibition space into a mini-lab type of creative biome, fostering fluid interrelations and exploring multiple potential states for the exhibition format and hosting environment.

Participating Artists:

Yu Araki (JP) / Bouie Choi (HK) / Anthony Chin (SG) / Kara Chin (SG/GB) / Gary Clough (GB) / Taro Izumi (JP) / Rikako Kawauchi (JP) / Kong Chun Hei (HK) / South Ho (HK) / Tang Kwok Hin (HK) / Kyung Hwa Shon (KR/GB) / Daniel Silva (CO/ES) / Alma Tischlerwood (DE/GB) / Ryo Uchida (JP) / Ayaka Ura (JP) / Wang Ruobing (SG) / Sai (SG) / Guanyu Xu (CN/US) / The Portland Inn Project (GB)

Photos taken by Kensuke Hashimoto. Courtesy of Art Gallery Miyauchi.

Landscape as Metaphor: Contemporary Voices

Alisan Fine Art New York

Participating artists:

Bouie Choi, Chu Chu, Lam Tung Pang, Kelly Wang, Yang Yongliang

《未竟之狀》‘Unfinished: The Invisible Condition’, curated by Christine Lee

Participating artists:

Bouie Choi, South Ho, Jeremy Ip, Jay Lau Ka Chun, Kevin Ling Chung Wan, Law Yuk Mui, Lo Lai Lai, Wai Pong Yu

Nov 25-Dec 17, 2023 @Wure Area, Hong Kong 

未央
Transplanting

將「秧」字拆開，再將形旁的「禾」戳破，而得「未央」。將時間的始末切走，這些一系列的明裝暗拆在錄像的容器時而交疊，時而分離。

Breaking down the Chinese character “秧” （which means seedlings) and piercing through the radical element “禾” (grains), one arrives at “未央” (be not over). Cutting away the beginnings and ends of time, these successive assembling and dismantling are contained in the video, sometimes intertwined, sometimes apart.

Theatre of New Gods

Nov 15 – Jan 11, 2020

Curated by Chris Wan Feng, Rossi & Rossi Hong Kong

Theatre of New Gods, a group exhibition featuring twelve artists from Taiwan, Hong Kong and mainland China. It is an idea inspired by a field trip to research the folk culture in Tainan by the curator, Chris Wan Feng. Each offers his unique perspective in observing the relationship between god and people, constituting a cultural kaleidoscope for a glimpse into the various developments of the same religious belief under different trajectories in history.

Participating artists:

Chen Po-I (Taiwan)Lin Bo-liang (Taiwan)Bouie Choi (Hong Kong)Wai Pong-yu (Hong Kong)Nicole Wong (Hong Kong)Jiang Sheng (Mainland China)Tian Xiaolei (Mainland China)

Vanity 為名
Video Performance
2019

「他們說, 無名指根下如果出現一條掌紋, 就會在未來名成利就。」
‘They said, if there is a palm line grew vertically from the end of the ring finger, one will become famous in the future.

【期中考—香港藝術家聯展】

日期：2019-12-14 ~ 2020-01-31
地點：節點 Zit-Dim Art Space（臺南市永福路二段84號）

參展藝術家

蔡鈺娟、何兆南、羅家南、凌佩詩、冼朗兒、鄧啟耀

The Pulse of Nature — Lung Fu Shan Exhibition, Lung Fu Shan Environmental Education Center, University of Hong Kong, 

Curated by Sampson Wong

Participating Artists:

Leelee Chan (sculpture), Choi Ching Yee (photography), Bouie Choi (painting), Ho Sin Tung (drawing), South Ho (photography), Swing Lam (illustrated booklet)

Publisher: MCCM Creations
No. of Pages: 302
Language: Bilingual (English and Chinese)
Suggested Retail Price: $150
More about the Publication:
https://www.mccmcreations.com/the-pulse-of-naturemid-levels-west