Situated within a contemporary image ecology, this panel considers how imagery no longer operate solely as representations, but are instead constituted through indexical and material processes shaped by circulation, mediation, and spatial encounter. Across installation, moving image, and emerging technologies, artists increasingly engage space as a medium through which perception is formed and meaning unfolds.
The talk explores the experiential dimensions of pictorial forms as they emerge through situation, duration, and embodied interaction. Moderated by curators Janet Fong and Tong Yang, the panel brings together artists Nina Nadig, Samuel Swope, and Shen Shaomin to discuss how spatial and technological conditions transform imagery into environments, opening alternative ways of sensing, understanding, and relating.
Date | 28 March 2026 (SAT)In an era shaped by mechanical reproduction and digital saturation, pictoriality operates as a mediating force between perception, information, and meaning. Extending beyond visual art, it functions across broader social and cultural contexts, shaping how visual material is recognized as evidence, memory, or truth, and how systems of visibility organize attention and belief.
Moderated by curators Janet Fong and Tong Yang, this panel brings together artists Cheong Kin Man & Marta Stanisława Sala, Sunny Wang and Tom O’Dea to reflect on how pictoriality operates within their practices, with particular attention to material exploration. Rather than treating pictorial form as a visual object, the discussion approaches pictoriality as a process between material presence and indexical trace, between the visible and invisible, and between artist and audience. The panel invites reflection on how visual forms translate and negotiate experience in everyday life.
Date | 29 March 2026 (SUN)
Time | 11:00-11:45
Venue | Exchange Circle, Art Basel Hong Kong, Level 1 Concourse (near Entrance 1A), Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre
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Registration | https://forms.office.com/r/BHnTvgLgQ8
Enquiry | ava@hkbu.edu.hk
AVA is delighted to announce our role as a Cultural Partner of Art Basel Hong Kong 2026. Alongside our presence at the HKCEC, we present the parallel exhibition “Between Image and Index”. This show brings together 33 artists and artist groups, ranging from emerging to established talents, based in Hong Kong, Macau, Shenzhen, Frankfurt, Berlin, Lisbon, Kraków and Katowice.