Biography
Aureola Series: Experiencing Physical and Spiritual Senses
by Ho Siu Kee
In previous years, I have been creating body sculptures examining the perceptual experience that linked the bodily senses. In my new project Aureola Series, the very solid and abstract materials, steel and light, are being employed in the work that allows me to further explore the relationship between artistic expression and the presence as well as absence of the body. By using steel and light as the metaphor of physical elements and spiritual experience, I attempt to investigate the duality of the body.
In making the steel wearable sculptures, I also took reference to the history of tortures and punishment. This is associated with the concept of the constrained body, which on the other hand echoes with Merleau-Ponty's idea that creation is an act of freedom. By adopting the soft and hard materials, I try to connote the idea of the physical and the spiritual, as well as that of the freed and the constrained, which is expected to lead the audience to a new level of understanding the relationship between art and the body, and the different senses generated through the artwork.
