Edouard Malingue Gallery, also from Hong Kong, will present ‘Mausoleum’ by João Vasco Paiva, a Portuguese-born artist who lives in Hong Kong (*1979). This sculptural installation presents Paiva’s visualization of a contemporary mausoleum, created out of meticulously stacked styrofoam boxes, which the artist cast in stone resin; an ironic process as styrofoam takes millions of years to break down, far longer than typical building materials. Stacked one atop the other, the arrangement of boxes mimics the storing and transporting techniques used by Hong Kong vendors; towering walls of styrofoam containers, treacherously tied by a fine rope and balanced atop the back of a bike. Paiva’s inspiration, however, comes from antiquity: those beacons of civilizations past, from Angkor Wat in Cambodia, to Giza in Egypt and Chichen Itza in Mexico.

Platform China with spaces in Hong Kong and Beijing will present ‘THEY are coming to Hong Kong’ by Chinese artist Yang Maoyuan (*1966). This site-specific project is composed of inflated and distended representations of various animals, which together form a disturbing ensemble, confronting the observer with a striking combination of the bizarre and the banal.

Hales Gallery from London will present ‘Chariots of the Gods’ by British artist Hew Locke (*1959). The work draws on Locke’s memories from visits to London’s Museum of Mankind, which once housed The British Museum’s Department of Ethnography along with collections of objects from the Americas, Africa, the Pacific, Australia, Asia and Europe. ‘Chariots of the Gods’ incorporates depictions of key exhibits including Benin bronzes, Buddhists masks, Inca mummies, Mexican serpents and the famous Easter Island Moai figure known as Hoa Hakananai’a, into a Western heraldic motif, echoing the Western museums’ practice of re-configuring and absorbing treasures from other culture, celebrating the extraordinary variety and breadth of the cultures shown at the museum, at the same time visualizing the museum's collection as a kind of ambiguous heraldic symbol of power and dominance.

Ota Fine Arts, with exhibition spaces in Singapore and Tokyo will present Singaporean artist Zai Kuning (*1964). ‘Dapunta Hyang (Transmission of Knowledge)’ is a large hanging boat made of rattan, secured with red, waxed string and stones. It is trailed with 20 waxed rattan skeletons. The work is part of the artist's five-year research project on Dapunta Hyang Jayanasa, and his lifelong interest in discovering his own history as a Malay.