Voxfire Gallery is pleased to present Carol Ho’s ‘Urban Stimulation’ along with Glamourpods’s first showcase.

Artist Statement:
As Tuan Yi Fu says in Escapism, imagination is the only way out of reality. And artworks are the products of imagination. Being an artist living in Hong Kong, a fast paced, affluent city in southeast Asia, Carol Ho's strong expressive paintings can be considered as her own artistic response to the external visual stimulation from the city through the medium of painting, and her works can be perceived as pictures depicting the psyche of people in this tiny but highly populated place.

Ho's paintings show the faceted visual experience of a metropolis. The diverse and yet rich visual images in her works are either inspired or sourced from the mass media, from traditional fashion magazines, digital photos, icons, animations etc.

Through recreating these images, the puzzling and strange figures in Ho's paintings convey the fantasy of mobilising differences of sexuality and social status, the interchangeable backgrounds in her paintings also hint at the lack of a sense of place in a globalised capitalistic world.

- by Carol Ho, 2012