This artist book by Hong Kong artist Wing Po So presented by Tai Kwun Contemporary is a response to her Six-Part Practice installation piece. The artist book contains documentary images from the installation, illustrations, information and resources of So’s inspirations, etc..
This artist book by Wing Po So corresponds with So’s installation piece Six-Part Practice. The book contains six chapters including documentary photographs of the installation, photographs of natural matters, as well as illustrations on So’s sculptures by Lewis Weston Dillwyn. In this book, So talked about her interpretation of the universe from the micro to macro, appearances to rationalization, questioning the human perception of matters and time. The collection of photographs of different natural materials leads the readers to discover and explore the possibilities of perceptions. Besides the organic photographs, scientific charts and data are also part of it, the combination of these two polar again appeals to the relationship between appearances and rationalization.
Six-Part Practice is So’s first solo exhibition curated by Kurt Chan Yuk Keung and presented by the MA Programme in Fine Arts of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. The artist picked six materials from her family’s traditional Chinese pharmacy in this exhibition. Through observation and research, So explored the characteristics of these materials to create sculptures and installations. The readers can have a better understanding of how the artist developed this exhibition with the illustration of these sculptures as well as the planning and thought process of the artist as she was building up her ideas in this book.
Wing Po So (b. 1985) is an artist from Hong Kong. So received her B.F.A degree from the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts, Washington University in Saint Louis in 2007, and her M.F.A. degree from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2012. So’s work is predominately about the nature structures, traditional Chinese medicine plants, and the universal energy we perceive.
