Amelia Johnson Contemporary presents VOLTAGE, an introduction to the talent of five rising stars of the Hong Kong Art Scene. Exhibiting work in a variety of media from video installation, photography, drawing and painting, VOLTAGE explores the themes of identity as each artist addresses the issue of what it means to be an artist in Hong Kong today.

WONG KAI KIN
A graduate from RMIT, Wong Kai Kin’s works explore the relationship of human condition in relation to the urban environment, specifically the condition of isolation, loneliness, helpless and boredom. The small paintings that Wong presents are taken from black and white newspaper illustrations of architects computer drawings of show flats. He repaints them using colour and paint texture to give them an emotional content, and is interested in the way we project our dreams and desires through imagining owning material possessions.

YOLANDA YEUNG
Yolanda Yeung’s paintings depict provocatively positioned teenage girls enticingly encased in cakes and desserts. The seductive, and at times saccharine, subject matter of these works is conflicted by the heavy layering of paint and texture. Born in 1982, Yeung graduated with a Masters Degree in Fine Art from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2007. Her work has been exhibited extensively within Hong Kong and she has been selected as a finalist at the Hong Kong Biennale, the Sovereign Art Foundation and Philippe Charriol Art Awards.

CASPER CHAN
Using charcoal, ink, watercolour, coffee and tea, Casper Chan creates larger than life portraits on wood. Often portrayed in compromising or contorted positions, Chan’s figures are the manifestation of her inner feelings, reflecting tension, insecurity, irony and a sense of romanticism. Casper Chan was born in Hong Kong in 1984. She studied in England during her formative years and received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in painting from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2006.

LEE KAI CHUNG
Fascinated by the relationship of time, space and human beings, Lee Kai Chung’s work is about the physical, social and contextual transformation of space. The Reading Room is his site specific, collaborative installation with Michelle Lee and here he converts his reading experience into a series of simple acts documented in various media. Through juxtaposing different plains of reality the two artists build a symbolic labyrinth through time and space.

MICHELLE LEE
Michelle Lee is a Hong Kong born artist who graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her work explores the relationship between text and image and aims to investigate the triangular relationship between author, reader and text. By reinterpreting and extracting text directly from both classic literature and contemporary novels, Lee transforms the lines and represents them in an extraordinary manner.