PAVILION HONG KONG 2026

Coinciding with Art Basel Hong Kong during Hong Kong Art Week, PAVILION introduces a collaborative and thoughtful model, gathering 25 galleries from Asia, Europe, and the Americas in an open-format, curated presentation over traditional fair booths. Conceived as a response to hyper-commercial fair structures, PAVILION emphasizes conversation, discovery, and sustained engagement between artists, gallerists, institutions, and collectors.

Within this context, YeoWorkshop is pleased to introduce the practices and works of Shayne Phua and Luke Heng,marking both artists’ debut showcase in the city.

Featuring in the fair will be four works by Luke Heng that examine the systemic failure of support structures under the weight of informational entropy. Central to this series is the “Mechanics of the Snap”, the systematic failure of support structures under the weight of informational entropy. These works employ a process of manual accretion, where the labor-intensive application of oil paint subjects weightless, rapidly circulating digital debris to the friction of a “slow burn.” By transcoding these ephemeral screenshots into dense, physical objects, the work resists the frictionless transparency of contemporary screens. The resulting surfaces act as a forensic ash or a “smoke screen,” where high-key values and overexposure are used as active tactical obscurations, recording moments where the vitreous architectures of our hyper-mediated landscape eventually succumb to material exhaustion.

In dialogue with Heng’s painterly meditations, Shayne Phua presents ceramic works that inhabit the terrain of the strange and allegorical. Phua’s objects are mischievous oddities: a multi-tailed fox spirit cast as an unlikely moral arbiter, two Godzillas clashing two King Kongs in a theatrical battle against the backdrop of a Housing Development Board estate, and a sculptural tableau crowning a container. While fantastical in appearance, these sculptures are grounded in the socio-political realities of contemporary life, particularly in Singapore, where the artist was born and raised. Phua’s practice critically engages with the discourse of “Asian values,” a framework that privileges communal needs over individual claims and has long shaped Singapore’s collective consciousness. Drawing on history, myth, folklore, and literature, her works blur the boundaries between the mortal and the spectral, the functional and the symbolic. Through clay, she constructs allegories that bring past and present into conversation, offering a nuanced reflection on cultural identity in an age of rapid change and global homogenisation.

Image Courtesy of PAVILION Hong Kong. Photo by Ben Marans/