Sunpride Articles

Chan Wai Lap | Swimming pool as a tension between public and private, and the individual and the community

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“If you frequent one particular pool as I do, you’ll start to notice the same people there again and again. We don’t know anything about each other, but there’s an…

Fuyuhiko Takata | Using humour to explore issues of the patriarchy in contemporary society

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“I often portray people who do not always live up to their ideals, who are vulgar and honest about their desires in my work. I believe that all human beings…

Waswo X. Waswo | To reveal and explore humanity through the hand-coloured photographic portraits

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“When you first look at my pictures you know what you’re seeing. Then you realise what you first saw is not correct and you’re forced to look at them again,…

Salman Toor | Creating the safe and magical spaces by narrative paintings

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“By creating private, deeply comfortable spaces, I hope to give dignity and safety to the boys in my paintings.” — Salmon Toor Salman Toor | Image courtesy of the artist,…

General Idea | Serious Humor

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“In Canada we were seen as not being really serious. Also, people would tell us that you can’t be a group and be an artist, artists don’t work in groups.…

Ching Ho Cheng | The Subtlety of Expression

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“I want to capture something of the miraculous. Light is the most awesome symbol of the Order of the Universe. Nothing can beat the speed of light. When I paint…

Christopher K. Ho l Thinking about institutions building institutions as tools as instruments for change through institutions

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“It has this idea of a work also being half. Half out, half on the margins, but halfway in. And, actually, that kind of mediating position of curating is one…

Duane Michals | Telling the nature of the person in his “prose portraits”

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“I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody’s face in a photograph. The magic…

Mickalene Thomas | Her paintings reinterpret canonized images of beauty, diversifying the representations of black female bodies in art and history

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“I’m hoping someone standing in front of my work might get the same feeling I got when I stood in front of the work of Carrie Mae Weems, having a…

Kang Seung Lee | Retelling marginalized narrative of queer figures and LGBTQ communities in art history by graphite drawings

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“They may seem to have disappeared from history, but their lives, in fact, have influenced ours enormously and remain important today.”— Kang Seung Lee Kang Seung Lee| Image courtesy of…