This issue means a lot to me (you\u2019ll understand by the end). Choosing what goes in our annual Art Issue is no small feat. While we\u2019re never short of story opportunities in Hong Kong, we\u2019re practically drowning in them come March every year as the global art world descends on the city.<\/p>\n
But when we heard Spanish photographer and artist Coco Capit\u00e1n was coming to town for \u201cImagination Investments\u201d, a three-part exhibition that marks her first major presentation in the city, we knew we had to speak to her. Capit\u00e1n\u2019s soulful work moves fluidly between fine art and fashion \u2013 from gallery shows in Seoul and Paris to campaigns for Gucci and Dior \u2013 and speaking to Sarah Keenlyside, she reflects on art, commerce and imagination. She doesn\u2019t want to think her work is unique because she\u2019s a woman, she says. \u201cI want to think they\u2019re unique because I\u2019m Coco.\u201d<\/p>\n
Capit\u00e1n has taken over our cover, too, with her unmistakable, evocative handwriting and the poetically titled image How to destroy something that never existed & how to rebuild something never destroyed, from her series \u201cNa\u00efvy in 50 (Definitive) Photographs\u201d.<\/p>\n
I loved reading Vanessa Lee\u2019s profile of Stockholm-based artist Lap-see Lam. Lam, whose work is being shown at Blindspot Gallery this month and next, dives into her Hong Kong roots and the strange state of in-between identities, where memory, mythology and family history blur and reassemble in unexpected ways.<\/p>\n
When I lived in Beijing in the early 2010s, it was impossible to speak about the contemporary art scene without mentioning Philip Tinari, formerly of UCCA Centre for Contemporary Art. Now, he\u2019s joining us in Hong Kong as Tai Kwun\u2019s deputy director and head of art. He tells Gavin Yeung his path to getting to \u201cthis crazy place\u201d \u2013 from underground Beijing openings and early Artforum days to building one of mainland China\u2019s most influential art institutions.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere, Peta Tomlinson gives us a peek inside muralist Elsa Jeandedieu\u2019s stylish Mid-Levels flat and Peter Neville-Hadley travels to Padua, where he takes in the city\u2019s astonishing frescoes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This issue means a lot to me (you\u2019ll understand by the end). Choosing what goes in our annual…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45607,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[25916,25915,173,25908,25913,25907,5340,25910,25914,25917,25918,25909,5339,131,132,25912,25911],"class_list":{"0":"post-45606","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-stockholm","8":"tag-art-basel","9":"tag-art-issue","10":"tag-beijing","11":"tag-blindspot-gallery","12":"tag-coco-capitan","13":"tag-gamzar","14":"tag-hong-kong","15":"tag-jen-paolini","16":"tag-mid-levels","17":"tag-padua","18":"tag-philip-tinari","19":"tag-postmag","20":"tag-south-china-morning-post","21":"tag-stockholm","22":"tag-sweden","23":"tag-tai-kwun","24":"tag-ucca-centre-for-contemporary-art"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116271297584302492","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}