Artwork
《像象》 Elephant and Images
《像象》
Elephant and Images
Porcelain、wood、decopaper
62cm x 32cm x 10cm
62cm x 32cm x 10cm
66cm x 32 x 10cm
#陳翹康 #Joe Chan Kiu Hong
Artist
Joe Chan Kiu Hong
Graduated with both a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Fine Arts from RMIT University (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology), Joe’s works have been exhibited in Chicago, Italy, Taiwan, Australia, Japan, China, and Macao. His ceramic creations incorporate elements of sculpture, installation, environment, and sound. In 2012, his work Silent Listening was selected for the Hong Kong Contemporary Art Awards. In 2014, he participated in the Artist-in-Residence Program at the Tango Listening Camp in Japan. In recent years, he received the Bronze Award at the MTR・Tin Chung Sculpture Art Award, the Gold Award in the Media Art category at the 21st ifva Awards, and Third Prize at the 2020 Hong Kong Human Rights Arts Prize. His works are part of the collection of the Hong Kong Heritage Museum.
Artist’s Statement
The harder I try to grasp it, the more I see: under the same sky, the same scenes and stories play on repeat — a shared corridor between you and me, running parallel through the currents of big data.
Creation Concept
As a Hong Konger who has never been to Tainan, I kept searching online for people and stories about the city. What I found instead were endless arguments, fights, car accidents under CCTV surveillance, and bizarre people and events—spinning without end. Visually, these images felt both real and profoundly blurry.
It was like the blind men and the elephant: a group of blind people, upon hearing about this animal called an elephant, tried to understand its shape by touching one. The one who touched the tusk said it was like a radish; the one who touched the ear said like a fan; the one who touched the leg said like a pillar; the one who touched the tail said like a broom.
Under big data, this homogeneous repetition started making me nauseous. I began focusing on the landscapes within those fragments. In the end, I could no longer tell where the clips came from—I only saw the same sky everywhere.
