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A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler
A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler

The Driver

Dark Corridor, by Koak.

May 22 – July 9, 2022
17th Floor, 50 Connaught Rd Central, Central, Hong Kong

In her first solo show in Asia, the San Fransisco-based artist Koak focuses on females and felines in paintings and sculptures. She’s interested in identity, and what it’s made of. Using bright, almost psychedelic colors, Koak explores the dualities and dimensions that make us human. “I think when we’re imagining ourselves as a conglomeration of selves,” says Koak, “there’s often the question of who rises up to the surface, which fractal is our true self.” In a sense, her work is about female agency—who we want to be and how much control we have in becoming that person. —Clara Molot

Photo courtesy of Perrotin