Shoot for the Moon
Phoebe Hui fishes out a screwdriver from her jumbled toolbox and uses it to connect wires to four tiny sockets on a robot’s arm. She flicks a switch and the arm suddenly animates, bringing life to a room filled with other mechanical curios, including electronic gadgets, figurines and musical instruments. She may at first look like an engineer but, based in just one of the workshops in the Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre, a former industrial buildingturned-artists’ village in Shek Kip Mei, Hui is the first solo female artist to present the Audemars Piguet Art Commission in Asia.
Hui’s upcoming installation, , is the fifth commissioned by the Swiss luxury watch manufacturer, which founded its biennial contemporary art competition in 2014. Audemars Piguet Contemporary invites an established artist or curator to guide
