This Arts Month, Pacific Place and Starstreet Precinct are transforming into a vibrant dimension of creativity from 21 March to 12 April. Experience A String of Echo Traps by Christine Sun Kim, an immersive installation that redefines sound as a visual and social experience, alongside I Have Anticipated You II by Gabriel Rico, a thought-provoking sculpture exploring the interplay of nature and humanity. Celebrate the convergence of art and life at Pacific Place and Starstreet Precinct, where creativity knows no bounds.
Embrace the Resonance of Echoes at Pacific Place
For the fourth consecutive year, Pacific Place proudly hosts the exclusive offsite project of Art Basel Hong Kong’s Encounters, featuring a dynamic site-specific digital animation installation. The work of Berlin-based American artist, Christine Sun Kim, A String of Echo Traps transforms Park Court into a landscape of visual resonance, exploring echoes as metaphors for Deaf life and communication across languages. With a large-scale digital animation display and an immersive floor mural platform, this distinctive installation invites visitors to reflect on the spatiality of language and the politics of sound.
Christine Sun Kim’s practice considers how sound operates in society, deconstructing its politics and exploring how oral languages function as social currency. Working across drawing, performance, video, and large-scale murals, she explores her relationship to spoken and signed languages, to built and social environments, and to the world at large.
Venue: Park Court, Level L1, Pacific Place
Opening Hours: 10am - 10pm
Ponder the Playful Dialogue Between Nature and Desire at Starstreet Precinct
Starstreet Precinct is pleased to unveil I Have Anticipated You II by Gabriel Rico, an intriguing installation rooted in Mexican culture. This striking sculpture reimagines the iconic cactus as a symbol of transformation, seamlessly blending natural and man-made elements. Through this captivating piece, Rico inspires visitors to contemplate the intricate interplay of humanity’s desires and ideals, creating a dialogue that intertwines nature, culture, and imagination.
Garbiel Rico’s work is characterised by the interrelation of seemingly disparate objects. His installations ironically and poetically combine natural and unnatural forms, insisting on a necessary contemplation of their asymmetry as well as our own cultural and political flaws.
Venue: Outside Three Pacific Place on Star Street
Opening Hours: 10am - 10pm