The Editors - ArtAsiaPacific (Page 571)

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Community of Celibates

The attitude of the eye is not of curiosity, but of disinvestment - key theme carried throughout the immersive exhibition. Andrew Stooke

*FU TSO HSIN*, _Flower Talk_, 2015, oil on canvas, 130 x 194 cm. Courtesy Parkview Art Hong Kong.

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Fu Tso Hsin's "Moon's Flower"

The artist's debut solo show in Hong Kong presents 25 paintings that each display meticulous attention to detail—a reflection of the artist’s former training as an engraver. Karena Lo

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Asian Artists and Galleries at the 2016 Armory Show

Paul Laster

*NOH SUNTAG*, _State of Emergency #41_, 2006, archival pigment print on paper, 81 x 112 cm. Courtesy the artist.

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Noh Suntag's "Dance of Order | Really Good, Murder"

Suntag sees the division of North and South Korea as a relationship that embodies a strange coexistence. The two nations, in ideological extremity with each other, are two sides of the proverbial coin. Ambika Rajgopal

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Photo Blog: The Met Breuer Opens

Carina Cha

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Yeh Wei-Li's "Antiquity-like Rubbish Research & Development Syndicate"

Museums tend to have a halo of authority to exhibit historical and artistic objects in order to make sense of the past and identity of a city or country. However, what if these objects are rubbish from a dump? Anna Cheong

MEEYOUNG KIM, Sunday Afternoon, 2015, oil on canvas, 130 x 97 cm. Courtesy Sophie's Tree, New York.

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Interview with Sophie’s Tree founder Sophie Hyewon Hong

Diana Seo Hyung Lee

*GATOT PUJIARTO*, _Helping the Hero_, 2009, canvas, textile and thread, 150 x 200 cm. Courtesy Peal Lam Galleries, Hong Kong.

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Gatot Pujiarto's "Stitching Stories"

The Indonesian artist's first solo exhibition in Hong Kong pays tribute to the art of collage, showcasing ten extraordinary mixed-media collages that incorporate torn magazine pages and scraps of clothing into painted canvases and tapestry works. Toivo Kai Yan Siu

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Dubai Photo Exhibition

Billy Kung

*YOUSSEF NABIL*, _I Saved My Belly Dancer #XIII_ (detail), 2015, hand-colored gelatin silver print, from video: 12 min. Courtesy the artist.

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Youssef Nabil's "I Saved My Belly Dancer"

Once highly respected, the art form of belly-dancing is now anemic and in danger of dying out. Nabil’s film and exhibition is a response to such phenomena. Rahel Aima

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Matt Saunders' "Two Worlds"

The exhibition features two new bodies of work that are interrelated—a continuation of “paintings” encapsulated in photographic prints, and a film installation. Stuart Munro

Installation view of *ITTAH YODA*'s exhibition

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Ittah Yoda's "I Think Mango You Say Salmon"

The two artists, coming from different cultural backgrounds, entwine and amalgamate their subjectivities to produce dissonant works. Ambika Rajgopal

*TONY OURSLER*, _Cy3_, 2015, polished aluminum, LCD screen, media player and sound, 120.7 x 86.4 x 11.4 cm. Courtesy Lehmann Maupin, Hong Kong.

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Tony Oursler’s “PriV%te”

Siobhan Bent

AU HOI LAM, Memorandum (To Love Someone Once Again), 2014, pencil, color pencil, acrylic and linen, 122 × 153 × 5 cm. Courtesy the artist.

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By Any Other Name

Elaine W. Ng