Koak: The Driver

Artist Koak’s most recent body of works, produced for his exhibition in Hong Kong, were developed during the pandemic and in them she heightens the sense of delay, the interiority, angst, and expectancy that are quintessential aspects of the human emotional experience over the last two years. As a result the compositions exhibit and are redolent with the internalized, desperate cultural mood of the time. In particular, they convey a sense of pressurized space that is juxtaposed with the ominous atmosphere of the outside world. In this sense they tap into our experience of isolation and self-reflection.