Grotto Fine Art presents the recent works from the Chinese artist Ho Siu Kee. Aureola is a series of sculpture works developed by the artist in recent years to explore the duality of the body - its limitation and liberation. Taking reference to the history of tortures and punishment, the metal wearable sculptures suggest a tangible awareness of the limitation of the body and, on the other hand, embody the liberation of it with light (halo) as an intangible, metaphorical symbol being used. By employing metal and light to connote the idea of the constrained and the freed, it is expected that a broadened perception of “the bodies we live” can be provoked.

About the Artist:

Ho Siu-Kee was born in Hong Kong in 1964. He received the degree of Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1989, Master of Fine Arts in sculpture from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan, USA in 1995 and Doctor of Fine Art at the RMIT University, Australia in 2003. Ho has been an indispensable part of Hong Kong art and participated in numerous exhibitions locally and abroad, most noticeably representing Hong Kong at the 49th Venice Biennial, Italy in 2001.

© Ho Siu Kee, Grotto Fine Art