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Monique Yim: ‘Echoing Contemplation’

Start
Jan 4, 2025
End
Feb 9, 2025

Venue

10B, Wing Wah Industrial Building
Quarry Bay, Hong Kong
Courtesy of Monique Yim｜由嚴穎嘉提供

In ‘The Embrace and the Passage’, Monique Yim invites interpersonal encounters in various forms, offering a respite of stability within the transience of our lives. 

With Echoing Contemplation, while absent, Yim presents a voice recording to accompany visitors through their journey in Michele Chu’s installation. As both a guided participation and meditation, the work offers a sense of resonance, inviting visitors to be both perceivers and performers in the space, while remaining free to own their space and time.

About the artist

Monique Yim

Monique Yim (b.1984, Hong Kong) is an artist, educator and mental health professional as a certified hypnotherapist, gestalt counsellor, and mindfulness and expressive arts instructor. She received her MA from Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, UK and studied postgraduate programmes at Zurich University of the Arts, Switzerland.

Yim mainly engages in performance, photography, video, mixed media installation, participatory art, public and community art, as well as film and theatre. Her works address human conditions, including social, cultural, identity, body, gender and queer issues, as well as the experiences of marginalised minorities. Since 2006, she has been featured in over 200 exhibitions, festivals and residencies across more than 30 cities in Asia, Europe and the Americas. She has received international and local awards, including the ‘Visual Art Performance Made in Public Space Prize’ at Kassak Centre, Europe (2018), shortlist nominations for the ‘Human Rights Arts Prize’ in Hong Kong (2021) and the ‘Colours of Humanity Arts Prize’ in Hong Kong (2022 and 2023). She curated ‘Performance Art Marathon’ at the West Kowloon Cultural District in Hong Kong (2014).

Yim has served as a consultant, lecturer, workshop instructor, speaker at talks and research conferences, and professional trainer at over 100 overseas and local universities, schools, arts and cultural organisations, social services institutions, healthcare institutions, diverse arts events, and community arts projects. She is dedicated to performance art education and has pioneered interdisciplinary practices and teaching methods in performance art in Hong Kong, including cross media art, creative education, cultural and gender studies, general education, life education, mindfulness, expressive arts therapy, psychology and psychotherapy, wellbeing and healing, philosophy, and spirituality.

Yim’s practice and works have consistently been featured in the media, cited in academic texts, and selected as research or teaching materials worldwide.