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Odds and Ends at VOLTA Basel 2024 ( Booth D08 )
Art fair: VOLTA Basel 2024
Booth: D08D
Date: 10th – 16th June 2024Address: Klybeck 610, Gärtnerstrasse 2, Basel 4057
Basel, Switzerland — Odds and Ends is pleased to announce its participation in VOLTA Basel 2024 (Booth D08) as part of sector VOLTA Firsts. The gallery will present new works by Hong Kong artist Amber Ng Wing Yan and Canadian artist Scott Sueme, whose practices emphasise colour theory, structural play and study of materiality. VOLTA Basel will be held at Klybeck 610 from 10 – 16 June 2024.
Amber Ng Wing Yan will present a series of new sculptures and drawings that explore the interactive nature of playgrounds and the creative instincts of child’s play. Ng's works are extensive studies of bodily interactions with play structures that integrate motion capture technology, industrial fabrication and sculptural processes. Throughout her research, Ng observed a keen instinct amongst children in finding unconventional and innovative ways of interacting with built structures within a playground; an intrinsic trait often lost as we enter governed society. Her hand-welded sculptures and robotic drawings attempt to capture the fleeting moments of children’s organic and ungoverned interactions with play structures.
Her new sculptures such as Playground: Monkey Bars, 2024 merge the player’s organic swinging motions with the rigid structure of monkey bars through rhythmic arrangements of round steels, resulting in a sculptural realisation of movement tracing. By using colours and materials commonly found in modern day playgrounds, Ng incites our own memories of play experience that were intrinsically motivated, discouraging manufactured experience of play and reviving our creative instincts that actualise our environment’s affordances.
Also on view are new paintings by Scott Sueme, whose current practice explores the concept of “interface”, specifically between the human experience and our relationship with the natural world. Sueme beckons the question of how our internal states, or personal narratives filter and colour our perception of the world in a constant feedback loop. His new works incorporate the use of Chinese characters as a nod to his cultural heritage, at the same time attempting to capture, or make an impression of his environment through a biographical, or personal lens; one that acknowledges both the self and where we belong. His new paintings such as Moon Beam, 2024 and Forest Meditation, 2024 are anchored in the exploration of nature connectedness, from which our perception of human identity is formed. Sueme notes “I love this idea, or perspective, that humans (collectively and the self) and nature are not separate, that we are on in the same. It’s in this mantra, or in practice to ask how we truly see ourselves in all living things”.
Amber Ng Wing Yan
Amber Ng is a Hong Kong artist whose multimedia practice spans mediums of sculpture, glass, drawing and digital media. Ng graduated from the Hong Kong Baptist University with a Bachelor of Arts (Visual Arts) in 2021.
Ng's research-based practice is rooted in her interest in integrating artistic forms with technological and industrial processes. Her recent works explore the nature of playgrounds in an attempt to capture and study the ephemeral act of play, resulting in hand welded steel sculptures moulded after imagery generated by motion capture technology. Her commitment to the study of the sculptural form continues in a recent expansion into the field of public installation, furthering her research on interactions between children and the environmental characteristics of playgrounds.
Scott Sueme
Scott Sueme is a Canadian artist raised in Vancouver, BC, on the unceded traditional territory of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. He has exhibited throughout Canada, as well as internationally, including Hong Kong, New York, San Francisco, Miami and Cape Town.
Sueme’s paintings are rooted in an exploration of materiality – principally, the quality and perception of colour. In his work, colour manifests as an abstraction of various elements of life, interacting to recall memories, capture the passage of time or connect with the subconscious.
Sueme’s hard-edge painting techniques create a subtlety of depth that reveals a new resonance to colour and an admission of the human hand.
This “imperfect” process of making calls to a nostalgia or authenticity – an honouring of the handmade. Through an intimacy of material interaction, Sueme’s works act as small records of larger lived experiences and a conversational catalogue of human imprints.
About Odds and Ends
Established in 2022, Odds and Ends is a contemporary art gallery in Hong Kong that showcases local and international emerging artists, with a focus on Asian diasporic artists. The mission of the gallery is to nurture new talents through a rigorous exhibition program and promote cross-disciplinary collaborations. Odds and Ends strives to serve emerging artists in Hong Kong and beyond by building a curatorial programme that emphasises context, storytelling, and representation.
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