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We confront the technicality - How did he get there? How is he balancing? We question the purpose and outcome – why is he there and what happens if he falls?
The calm falls away into a desire to understand, and as it does, Ho Siu Kee takes us on a journey of discovery that challenges what we see, what we know, and what we believe of the possible and the improbable.
His art is more than visual creativity - it is a voyage, each piece of his oeuvre, a creative landmark that explores another conceptual aspect of space, experience and perception, ultimately opening the opportunities for awareness and understanding.
Ho Siu Kee is a quiet, polite and modest man, and in his art. As an artist he has used a form of self-portraiture in sculpture, performance and documentary photography to conceptually and physically explore his own boundaries, and by doing so the ordinary and everyday movements of life become extra-ordinary events, challenging the very substance of understanding. Simply, he
endeavors to awaken the consciousness, enabling the sub-conscious actions of a human being: walking, seeing, standing, to be transformed into an acute awareness of self.
Ho Siu Kee takes us on a journey of discovery that challenges what we see, what we know, and what we believe of the possible and the improbable.
Yet despite the dominance of self-portraiture, his work is not subjective. Rather it is the objectivity of each enquiry that fosters a cohesive platform for collective attention and interpretation. The objective exploration of perception, conception and expression has further guided his passion for art education that, as student and teacher, has focused attention on the processes of art making.
From his earliest developments Ho Siu Kee has explored his own perceptions, questioning the
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