Working with malleable materials, Chan, who holds a BFA (2011) from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and an MA (2014) from Hong Kong Baptist University, extracts elements from the built environment and turns them into sculptures that toe the line between reality and surreality. This is Mine Project's first showing at Art Basel Hong Kong as part of Discoveries, and with a suite of sculptural works by Hong Kong artist Tap Chan, the gallery does not disappoint. Take Eat me! Eat me! (Strawberry, vanilla, chocolate, matcha, taro, mint, bozi soda, mango) (2021), a kinetic sculpture of ice-cream cones 3D-printed to look as if they've fallen to the ground, scoop first, twisting cone up.Īrtist Profile Tap Chan View Bio, Works & Perhaps it's the familiarity of the image that's so striking an invocation for a time when emptied swimming pools were secret hide-outs for teenagers being teenagers and skaters being skaters.īorn in 1988, Chan's background in visual communications-he completed his BA on the subject at Birmingham City University in 2011-shows in a practice defined by a coy sense of play. You come to me on a summer breeze: Istanbul 2 (2021), for example, is a bird's-eye view of a pool that renders every single blue tile in dizzying detail. Rendered from the perspective of someone looking straight ahead from one end of an empty swimming pool, other works give different viewpoints.
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Chan Wai Lap at Gallery EXITĭreaming of Swimming Pools 1 (2022) is a new addition to Chan Wai Lap's series of colour pencil on paper works that treat empty swimming pools as readymade grids.
Chan Wai Lap, Dreaming of Swimming Pools 1 (2022).