New Currents: Objects of Our Emotions

The circulation of global capital often results in an exchange of objects and symbols that connects the internet and the physical world. It is also a transfer that informs Vunkwan Tam’s artistic practice. The Hong Kong-based artist is known for his installations of marginally adjusted readymade artifacts found on the streets or purchased online, and the objects’ removal from their original context, the way in which Tam processes and works with them, and their placement within the gallery space evoke a unified force that is bleak, shadowy, and tarnished.