South Ho’s newest series Every Daily marks a breakthrough in his creative work. In a departure from his previous photography, this new series is his first to incorporate the element of painting, based on a collection of black and white photographs of Tin Shui Wai, one of the largest new towns in Hong Kong where he lives. Ho fills the sky between the densely packed residential buildings with uniformly sized blocks of different colours. His previous photographic works such as Into Light and Impermanence set out to illuminate the transience of living. In a similar vein of random existence, the artist picks the colour of each block by throwing a dice. He goes on to paint the repetitive, uniformly sized blocks on the photographs using the paintbrushes left by his late father. Through the mechanical and monotonous process of painting blocks, Ho attempts to reach a meditative state of self-healing for the loss of his father.

About the artist:

Born in 1984, South Ho graduated from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2006. He became a full time artist and established his studio in 2008. In 2013, he co-founded 100 ft. PARK, a non-commercial art space dedicated to providing an open platform for exhibiting and sharing art. Ho was awarded the Hong Kong Contemporary Art Biennial Awards 2009. He was selected as finalist of The Sovereign Asian Art Prize 2011 and as nominee for the Société Générale Chinese Art Awards 2010. His work is collected by the Burger Collection, Hong Kong Heritage Museum, Legislative Council of Hong Kong and Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts in Japan. Ho currently lives in Hong Kong.

Image: © South Ho, Blindspot Gallery