Osage: :: Osage Art Award – Best in MA Show.

Organised by Osage Art Foundation (OAF), the exhibition invited 7 artists who graduated from the Master of Arts in Fine Arts of Chinese University of Hong Kong, and also the awardees of “Osage Art Award – Best in MA Show” Scholarship since 2014, to each develop a new work reflecting on their journeys after graduating. Through this exhibition, we hope to show how art bring us to encounter and then flow us into different rivers of the world.

We are conditioned from an early age to seek meaning in all things - to ask "why", look for purpose and evaluate significance in the world around us. All the meaning standard for being “meaningful”? what if meaning itself is meaningless? What if the meanings we cling to are arbitrary, or blind us rather than illuminate? Is it always us who give meanings to beings?

The exhibition “Giving Meaninglessness” explores art that evades or subverts our expectations of meaning. Through seeming absurdity and nonsensicality, the works return us to a primal encounter with beings. Here, the search for meaning can be a distraction, or even a kind of trap. By suspending the impulse to make superficial sense of things, we open ourselves to new ways of seeing and understanding, and there find a meaning more profound than those we could articulate or conceptualize. Only when we relinquish the need to name and categorize experience do we become present enough to grasp its true meaning, or appreciate the meaningless as meaningful in itself, which arises from raw experience rather than preconceptions.

In the end, the meaninglessness we give, then gives meaning back to us. 

“Osage Art Award – Best in MA Show” was set up by The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and supported by Osage Art Foundation since 2014. The award aims to recognize outstanding students based on performance in artwork in the Master of Arts in Fine Arts Graduation Exhibition and graduation theses. 

Artists 藝術家 

Jeff CHENG Tsz Fung 鄭子峰 

Ricky CHUNG Wa Sau 鍾華壽 

FUNG Yee Lick Eric 馮以力 

Winnie PUN 潘詠雯 

Haynie SZE Wing Yee 史穎怡 

SO Kwok Kin 蘇國堅 

TSANG Tsz Yeung 曾梓洋 

Opening Reception: 08.07.2023 (Sat) 16:00-18:00