Hong Kong artist has help from former Nasa astronauts for lunar project

By Enid Tsui

One suspects that Phoebe Hui Fong-wah’s studio in the Hong Kong Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre is always in a state of disarray.

Electric components acquired from frequent forays to nearby Apliu Street in Sham Shui Po cover work surfaces, and experimental, handmade musical instruments are stacked on top of a vintage upright piano.

These seemingly unconnected objects represent the intersection of science and humanities that has long fascinated the multimedia artist. For example, a recent work called Dance of the Little Dusters (2020) features a group of dusters moving about to Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake.

The artist, whose day job is as a lecturer at the Hong Kong Design Institute, says things are especially frantic at the moment. For two years, she has been working on a particularly important commission that has been pushing her to reconsider her artistic motives, and the deadline is looming...READ MORE

Hui decided on the moon as a theme during a fact-finding trip to the Audemars Piguet headquarters. Photo: courtesy of the artist and Audemars Piguet

Cover Image: Hui working on art commissioned by Swiss watchmaker Audemars Piguet. Photo: courtesy of the artist and Audemars Piguet