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These hands think about you all is part of visual artist Ana Navas’ residency at HKU’s Fine Art department. For this exhibition she invited 22 third- and fourth-year students she met during her studio visits, to contribute a work.
How to organize an exhibition when the subjects and media of these young artists are so different from each other? As a starting point Navas chose what she considers common to all art practices: sincerity. The exhibition deliberately presents works of very diverse nature, but the core of the show does not lie solely in these pieces: it offers the visitor an insight into the inspirations underlying each practice.
For Navas, art is a dialogue with the other, one that is not limited to the established audience, but rather generates an echo in a broader field. To contribute to this for These hands think about you all, Navas asked the students and herself to write a letter to someone or something essential to the work: an image, a memory, an experience, a person, an object they often think of while making. These letters are an integral part of the presentation, forming a connecting element that provides a voice to extremely relevant but often overshadowed aspects of each practice.