iPhone: 20240227-20240228 (2024)

iPhone: 20240227-20240228 (2024)
by Giraffe Leung Lok Hei (1993-)
Painting on acrylic board via iPhone
8 x 15.5 cm

An established artist in Hong Kong, Giraffe works in multiple media. In this series of works, he sat for hours with his computer or iphone streaming content, and with a canvas and paints at hand to capture and record the observed images. Cool idea.

This highly impressionistic work was recorded while he was looking at his iphone, and he installed the little painting in an iPhone case. The exhibition where his work had created molded hands for holding some of the smaller art objects, and doing it for this piece was a total gimme. More to the point, it enhances the art to an exceptionally high degree. So when I offered to by the piece, I sort-of demanded that the gallery also give me the hand.