Audemars Piguet's 5th Art Commission exhibition has opened in Hong-Kong a new installation ahead of Art Basel 2021. Produced collaboratively by Mazarine NYC and Mazarine Asia Pacific.
'The Moon Is Leaving Us': a new large scale art installation by Hong-Kong based multidisciplinary artist Phoebe Hui, enhances the critical role that representation plays in science and in our comprehension of the Universe. It comprises two major bodies of work: Selena, a custom-built drawbot that produces intricate Moon drawings; and Selenite, a kinetic robot consisting of 48 mechanical arms arranged in a parabolic shape projecting varying Moon imagery on to 48 unique screens.
Hui’s large-scale installation The Moon Is Leaving Us enhances the critical role that representation plays in science and in our comprehension of the Universe. Through an epistemological approach, the artist captures the melancholic emotions entangled with the scientific fact that the Moon is slowly migrating away from Earth.