Koak creates emotionally charged portraits of female figures. The artist imbues her figures with a sense of agency and inner life to challenge patriarchal views of the feminine. Engaging hierarchies of gender as well as form, Koak interrogates commonly held cultural assumptions defining women as passive objects of desire. Drawing on the visual vocabulary of comics, the exquisite technique Koak is known for allows her mark-making to appear beautifully effortless, but is in fact the result of a rare type of generous and hand-made master craftsmanship.

Gallery address: 8/F, K11 Atelier Victoria Dockside, 18 Salisbury Road, Tsim Sha Tsui