*Installation view of ‘Karmic Fissures’ at PODIUM, Hong Kong.*

Ep.101 | PODIUM presents the group exhibition ‘Karmic Fissures’, the gallery’s first program featuring works solely by diasporic and local Hong Kong contemporary artists. Interweaving media art, sculptures, installations, and paintings, the exhibition navigates between philosophies drawn from quantum physics and Buddhism to speculate how one may uncover microscopic, nuanced dynamics within hegemonic, overpowering orders. Through acute mindfulness of complex yet traceable loci of causes and effects, the artists open up karmic fissures to evoke radical transmutation and intervene in the logic of impossibility.

Phoebe Hui (lives and works in Hong Kong) is an artist and researcher primarily working in the relationship between language, sound and technology. Her recent projects explore interdisciplinary ideas drawn from the philosophy of science, system aesthetics and the concept of indeterminacy. She is the recipient of a number of grants and awards, including HKETO Yale-China Art Fellowship, Hong Kong Art Development Council Young Artist Award (Media Art), Asian Cultural Council Altius Fellowship, Bloomberg Emerging Artist Award, Asian Cultural Council United States-Japan Arts Program Research Fellowship, Hong Kong Art Development Council Art Scholarship, Hong Kong Design Association Design Student Scholarship, among others. She has presented her research-based art practice and papers globally at venues including Ars Electronica, ISEA, the MIT Media Lab, Asian Contemporary Art Week, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the International Festival of Arts and Ideas. Hui received her MFA at UCLA Design Media Art, Los Angeles, her MA in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London, and her BA in Creative Media from City University of Hong Kong.

Phoebe Hui Playful pizzicato III 2024. — *Phoebe Hui, Playful pizzicato III, 2024*

Chloë Cheuk (b. 1989, lives and works in Hong Kong and Montréal) works across installation, interactive media, photography, and video to explore the structure of feelings between individuals and society. Resonating with everyday experiences and memories, her art employs a minimalist yet spiritual and aesthetic language to unveil the metaphorical meanings of objects and foster intimate dialogues on both personal and collective levels. Her solo exhibitions include ELLEPHANT Galerie, Montréal (2020), Dienstgebäude Zurich Art Space, Zürich (2017), Things that can happen, Hong Kong (2015), 100ft. PARK, Hong Kong (2015), Videotage, Hong Kong (2015), and ZHdK Switzerland, Zürich (2015). She has participated in a number of group exhibitions, including Videotage, Hong Kong (2023), Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong (2022), Soundpocket, Hong Kong (2021), Goethe Institut, Hong Kong (2020), Korean Cultural Center, Hong Kong (2019), and LOOP Festival, Barcelona (2016). She is the recipient of the Special Mention Award at the 19th ifva Festival (Interactive Media Category) in 2014. Her work was also in the collection of M+ Museum, Hong Kong. Cheuk graduated from the School of Creative Media at City University of Hong Kong and received an MFA at Concordia University in Quebec, Canada.

Kin Ting Li (b. 1991 in Hong Kong, lives and works in London) gained Bachelor of Science (Hohour) in Applied Physics from City University of Hong Kong in 2013 and BA in Fine Arts from The Slade School of Fine Art in 2019. He had his solo exhibition at Pradiauto, Madrid (2021) and South Parade, London (2021). His recent group exhibitions include Nova Contemporary, Bangkok (2024), South Parade x Sadie Coles HQ, London (2022), Super Dakota, Brussels (2022), The Artist Room, London (2022), South Parade, London (2022), VO Curations, London (2020), Light Eye Mind, London (2019), Julius Getty Gallery, London (2019), Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre, Hong Kong (2018), Vardaxoglou, London (2018), The Crypt Gallery, London (2017), and Rossi & Rossi, Hong Kong (2017).

Genie Hui (b. 1999, lives and works in Hong Kong) modernises traditional ink works on paper by infusing them with vibrant hues and phantasmagoric imageries. Inspired by her Thai heritage and Buddhist upbringing, her works captivate the viewers to meditate on energy flows and creation processes. The uncanny, bodily landscapes and fantastical compositions created by the meticulous brush strokes represent the interconnectedness in universe and boundless cosmic possibilities. She has participated in several group exhibitions, including HKBU AVA Gallery, Hong Kong (2023, 2021, 2020), Chung-Ang University, Seoul (2022), and Youth Square, Hong Kong (2021). Hui received her BA from Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University in 2023.

Yi To (b. 1995 in Hong Kong, lives and works in London) gained her MA in Painting from Royal College of Art in 2021. Her solo exhibitions were held in Alice Amati, London (2024), and Someday Gallery, New York (2022). Her recent group exhibitions include Newchild Gallery, Antwerp (2023), Lindon & Co., London (2023), Hive Centre for Contemporary Art, Beijing (2023), Deli Gallery, Mexico City (2023), Gallery Vacancy, Shanghai (2022), Someday Gallery, Miami (2022), Indigo + Madder, London (2022), MAMOTH, London (2021), Someday Gallery, New York (2021), Cromwell Place, London (2021), Unit 1 Gallery Workshop, London (2021), Asylum Chapel, London (2021), and Hockney Gallery, Royal College of Art, London (2020).

*Yi To, A Purposeful Arrangement of Parts, 2024*

Karmic Fissures: 13 July - 07 September 2024

PODIUM: Unit 9D, E Tat Factory Building, 4 Heung Yip Road, Wong Chuk Hang, Hong Kong

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