Koak: The Driver at Perrotin Gallery

Created during the pandemic, these paintings definitely contain the weight of uncertainty and unease, while also portraying and reflecting different aspects of psyche and state of mind, where the duality and complexity of human experiences plays an important role. In being isolated there’s some amount of freedom of self exploration, in happy moments there’s some grieving upon impermanence, in good news there’s some fear of inevitability of change, in how others see us and how we perceive ourselves there’s some percolation. Everything contains multitudes, and these multitudes include opposites.

I feel that apart from the deep psychological and philosophical themes the striking colour palette and marvellously precise line should absolutely be something to be praised and admired.

Exhibition period: 21 May—30 July
Gallery address: 8/F, K11 Atelier, 18 Salisbury Rd, Tsim Sha Tsui