Paperscape (Exhibition Poster)
Art Basel Hong Kong 2025 Parallel Exhibition: Paperscape
巴塞爾藝術展香港展會2025平行展覽：紙象
2025
Key Visual Design (Poster, Social Media, and other promotional designs)
主視覺設計（海報、社交媒體以及其他設計）
Exhibition Poster: 4-colour print on Earth paper
展覽海報：四色印刷紙本
Could paper become an individual art medium and go beyond its common use as a support material and surface for writing, drawing, painting, printing, wrapping, etc.? Paper, a flexible and affordable medium, has been utilised in our daily life as tissues, money, books, letters, tickets, receipts, and so forth, as well as metaphors in different cultures. In Asia, paper has been often used as offerings at funerals, as clothing, as windows and doors in houses, and as talismans in ritual or religious contexts. In a digital age when the significant functions of paper, especially writing, have gradually diminished or been replaced, could the contemporary art of paper foster our (re)connections with paper and its cultural, intellectual, and spiritual significance in the past?
This exhibition, featuring the artworks of 15 contemporary artists from diverse cultural backgrounds, presents a three-dimensional, multisensory, and affective “paperscape” that resonates and contrasts with the simple and pure form of paper. It evokes our original sensations for paper and our memories about it, along with the stories embedded within. It explores the inherent quality of paper as a medium that naturally stimulates a dialogue between textual and visual languages. It also negotiates the artisanal identity of paper art and its association with folk art.
紙能否超越其作為書寫、繪畫、印刷、包裝等常見用途的載體和表面，成為一種獨立的藝術媒介？紙，作為我們日常生活中一種柔韌且經濟的媒介，已被廣泛應用於紙巾、貨幣、書籍、信件、票據等，同時也在不同文化中作為隱喻的組成。在亞洲，紙常被用於葬禮中的祭品，被製成衣物、房屋中的門窗，以及儀式或宗教場合中的護符。在數字時代，紙的傳統功能，尤其是書寫，已逐漸弱化或被取代。當下，以紙為媒介的藝術創作，能否激發我們與紙張及其在過去所承載的文化、知識和精神意涵的重新連結？
本次展覽匯集了來自不同文化背景的15位當代藝術家的作品。與紙原本簡單而純粹的形式呼應而反差，這些作品呈現了一種立體的、多感官體驗的、情動的「紙象」，以喚起人們對紙最初的感知與記憶，以及紙所承載的屬於集體或個人的故事和記憶。同時，它探索了紙激發文字與視覺語言之間聯通、對話的內在特性，亦對紙藝術常常被當作工藝美術、民間藝術的定位進行商榷。
Artists 藝術家：Markéta ADAMCOVÁ、CHAN Hoi Shan 陳凱珊、HUO Yun 霍雲、Juri HWANG、LEUNG Cheuk Ying Sofie 梁焯螢、LEUNG Tsz Yung 梁芷榕、LEUNG Yuen Shan 梁菀珊、LI Wing Yuet 李穎悅、Augustine PAREDES、PHẠM Nguyen Anh Tú、Lulu Leika RAVN LIEP、SHUM Kwan Yi 沈君怡、TSE Wai Ling 謝慧玲、WAI Pong Yu 韋邦雨、YANG Wei 楊威萬尼
Curators 策展人：WANG Yizhou 汪一舟、YANG Tong 楊桐