Jointly organised by the Art Promotion Office under the Leisure and Cultural Services Department (LCSD) and the Shenzhen Fringe Art Center, the third exhibition "Strata and Symbiosis" of the "Ink Art Ensembles" Exhibition Series in the Greater Bay Area (GBA) is on display from today (September 12) to October 26 in Guangzhou. It is also a contribution programme of the 5th Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Culture and Arts Festival. Hong Kong artist Ross Yau uses ink as a medium to reshape the imagery of traditional landscapes, while another GBA art group, _.WAV_Studio_(Cao Yuxi and Lau Hiu-kong), has created a fantastical landscape world through digital technology. Through different media, they break the temporal and spatial dimensions of traditional ink art.
 
     Yau focuses on ink creations and research. His ink artworks, such as "Meta-5", "Into V", "Beyond the Echoes", and "The Trail of the Mountains", reveal varied landscapes. Another ink artwork, "Mirage Harmony", metaphorically reconstructs the distinctive landforms of Hong Kong's 18 districts into a pictorial landscape. The ink art installation "Mountains Beyond II" constructs a cyclical landscape, connecting uninhabited islands from Hong Kong's southern and northern sides through a monumental composition. The circular installation allows viewers to walk through its space, engaging with shifting perspectives and distances to emulate the visual and spatial experience of scenery transforming with every step. His artwork "Tracing" shows traces left by a piece of sandpaper in a round shape rubbing against a sheet of ink-coloured paper through light trails in the dark.
 
     The artworks of _.WAV_Studio_ encompass video, installation, interactive and sound art. The series "Shanshui by AI" trains a "landscape painting machine" capable of infinite generation with tens of thousands of ink paintings, and makes use of three-dimensional physical simulation to create an immersive experience like "glasses-free 3D". "Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains" reinterprets the scannable QR code, transforming it into a readable landscape. The series "Seasonal Proximities" turns footage of flowers, trees, rocks, water bodies, and light and shadow into digital images, guiding viewers to consider how to rebuild perceptions of nature through algorithms and data. "Longitude and Latitude Chart of High Mountains and Flowing Water" captures real-time mountain terrain of the GBA to dynamically generate digital landscapes.
 
     The exhibition also displays a digital video installation co-created by _.WAV_Studio_ and Yau named "Shanshui by AI - A Special Collaboration with Ross YAU Wing Fung". It was inspired by Yau's original work "Pouring II". The visual tension in the artwork aligns seamlessly with the "dynamic texture" of the "Shanshui by AI" series, appearing frozen in time through algorithmically generated imagery. It shows traditional brushwork resonating with digitally generated art.
 
     The exhibition has venue support from chi K11 art space and is running at chi K11 art space at L4, Guangzhou K11 Art Mall (6 Zhujiang East Road, Tianhe District, Guangzhou) with free admission. For details of the exhibition, please visit the website of the Art Promotion Office: www.apo.hk/en/web/apo/there_ink_art_ensembles_strata_and_symbiosis.html, and follow the "apothere" page on Facebook www.facebook.com/apo.there, Instagram www.instagram.com/apo.there and Weibo weibo.com/apothere.
 
     The exhibition is also one of the activities in the Chinese Culture Promotion Series. The LCSD has long been promoting Chinese history and culture through organising an array of programmes and activities to enable the public to learn more about the broad and profound Chinese culture. For more information, please visit ccpo.gov.hk/en.

Ends/Friday, September 12, 2025
Issued at HKT 14:30

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