Taku Hisamura, Huo Yun, and Damon Tong

Opening Reception: 6:30 - 8pm, November 26, 2024
Exhibition: November 26 – December 16, 2024
Sansiao Gallery HK: 1/F, Room 104 - 5 Wilson House, 19 - 27 Wyndham Street, Central, Hong Kong

Sansiao Gallery HK and the exhibition organizer Chun Poon jointly present “Transcendence,” an exhibition featuring the latest works by contemporary artists Taku Hisamura, Huo Yun, and Damon Tong. Despite their diverse backgrounds, all three artists use everyday materials—such as textiles, paper, and stickers— as their medium. By breathing new life into familiar items, their works prompt a reconsideration of how we understand and engage with society and the physical world around us.

Taku Hisamura, trained at Tama Art University in Japan, transforms ready-made textiles – such as old clothing and fabric – into enduring works of art. Using embroidery techniques on cloth, Hisamura reimagines used materials as landscapes as sculptural forms. In some works, he stitches a pedestal beneath well-known brand logos to create statue-like images, transforming these symbols of mass-produced goods into tactile, one-of-a-kind artworks. In other works, he uses patchwork and traditional Japanese Sashiko stitching techniques on worn fabrics to create white, unadorned gallery walls resembling the "White Cube"— an aesthetic concept introduced in the early twentieth century in response to the increasing abstraction of modern art.

Huo Yun, a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna, Italy, often seeks ordinary, everyday materials to create sculptures in search of their innate qualities. By deconstructing and reshaping these materials, Huo pushes to reveal their expressive potential, moving beyond their conventional, designated applications. In his recent paper works, he uses hands to fold, stack, and rub the paper, allowing the material to return to its purest, primitive quality, abandoning its everyday functions. By exploring the rhythmic interaction between lines, Huo wishes to form a freer and undefined space.

Damon Tong, who holds a Master of Visual Arts from Hong Kong Baptist University, forms his compositions without paint, using customized stickers arranged on wooden panels in collage. Like any skilled painter, Tong is deeply attuned to the relationships between colours. Each piece’s colour themes and tones are tested, adjusted, and refined through hundreds of digital variations before the final set of stickers is printed for actual use. His motifs, often drawn from everyday life, are simple yet ambiguous, occasionally tinged with humour.

By redefining the ordinary, these works prompt us to reconsider what we know and how we perceive. This exploration aligns with Carl Jung’s concept of “The Transcendent Function,” which describes the psychic process that arises from the tension between consciousness and the unconscious, fostering psychological growth through their integration.