Artist Bouie Choi Yuk-kuen with her work Route 66 at Grotto SKW in Shau Kei Wan, Hong Kong. She paints scenes mixing fantasy and reality on panels of upcycled wood. Photo: Jonathan Wong
Time and memories inspire artist’s canvases of upcycled wood that mix fantasy with realism and give a sense of ‘never knowing what is real’
Artist Bouie Choi’s 2020 exhibition captured the trauma of a year of protests in Hong Kong; the same urge to depict things disappearing is there in her new show
Washes of blue and brown from which buildings and figures emerge as if from a Chinese scroll painting recall the 20th century ink art of Zhang Daqian