The Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre is an art learning platform that shares artistic knowledge with the public from multiple perspectives through collaboration with local artists, scholars, art institutions, and groups. The Art Talk series invites you to pursue knowledge and seek creative inspiration.
【Art Talk】
Topic: Art Talk – The Scale, The Hand, The Body: From Herb Cabinet to Art Creation
Speaker: SO Wing-po
Date: 30.5.2026 (Saturday)
Time: 5pm — 6pm
Venue: Lecture Theatre, 4/F, Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre (vA!)
Language: Cantonese
Free admission
Quota: 70 (Quotas tags will be distributed on-site starting from 4:30pm, first come, first served)
SO Wing-po graduated from the University of Washington and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her artworks have been exhibited at the Hong Kong Museum of Art, Tai Kwun Contemporary, and major institutions and biennials across Asia. Using Chinese herbs as a medium, she creates installations, sculptures, and videos that explore the hidden connections and systems within nature. For her, nature has never been “whole”; it is matter that has been cut, dried, ground, and stored in herbal medicine cabinets. These memories shape the foundation of her practice: classification, transformation, and tactile judgment. The talk begins with everyday manual tasks, such as weighing herbs, removing impurities, slicing, and pounding, to examine the “knowledge of the hand.” It considers how a practitioner’s hand learns when something is “enough” and how an artist’s hand recognizes when it feels “right.”
Highlights from some of the Art Talk series have been uploaded to the Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre's YouTube page for you to revisit.