10 Chancery Lane Gallery is proud to present at Art Basel Hong Kong 2026 seven artists with a special feature on Dinh Q. Lê (1968-2024) who will have a solo presentation at 10 Chancery Lane curated by David Elliott with a new publication and essay.
Artists featured at the Art Basel Hong Kong booth 1C06 at 10 Chancery Lane Gallery are:
Dinh Q. Lê (Vietnamese-American)
FX Harsono (Indonesian)
Huang Rui (Chinese) Josephine Turalba (Filipina)
Lewis Lee (Hong Kong)
Laurent Martin “Lo” (French)
Huang Rui (Chinese) Josephine Turalba (Filipina)
Lewis Lee (Hong Kong)
Laurent Martin “Lo” (French)
Wang Keping (Chinese, based in France)
Dinh Q. Lê (1965–2024, Vietnam), is one of the most influential contemporary artists to emerge from Southeast Asia whose practice was driven by questions of memory, identity, history, and the unstable terrain between truth and representation. His practice challenges how our memories are recalled and how society archives the evidence of human suffering. Lê’s series of photo- weavings was initiated by his search of his real and imagined memories of the Vietnam war. His complex tapestries intertwine Vietnam movie images, found photographs and Buddhist icons to weave together his personal memories and how the war was perceived by the outside.
For Art Basel Hong Kong the gallery will present artworks illustrating different series of his journey. Two photo weavings From Vietnam to Hollywood (2004) which combines found imagery and stills from Hollywood films depicting the Vietnam War. Also showing is a light box of a burning ship, Erasure (2012). This lightbox was created for the exhibition, Erasure, an interactive sculptural and video installation created by Dinh Q. Le that draws on issues concerning refugees and asylum seekers. It is a large moving image of an eighteenth-century tall ship being slowly consumed by flames. The last work is from his series Tropicana Migration (2015), it examines the evolution of his country through tourism and how, still today, the Vietnam War’s presence continues to be an ironic attraction. The work portrays Lê’s investigation into his homeland, the Vietnam War and how it is placed today by the tourism industry. The photo-weaving is made of a composition of iconic images from the war interlaced with today's tourism industry in Vietnam. Mixing together pleasant and bright-coloured tropical imagery with those war images found in archives or from Hollywood films about the war. His works have been exhibited at and/or collected by institutions worldwide including the MoMA, the Tate Modern, The Mori Museum, The Carnegie International, the Venice Biennale, the San Francisco MoMA, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the San Jose Museum of Art and M+ in Hong Kong, among many others.
FX Harsono (born 1949, Blitar, Indonesia) is a leading Indonesian contemporary artist known for his politically engaged work exploring identity, history, and social injustice. As a Chinese- Indonesian, his practice often addresses issues of discrimination, cultural erasure, and collective memory, particularly in relation to the 1998 anti-Chinese violence in Indonesia. Working across installation, performance, sculpture, and mixed media, Harsono has exhibited widely in Asia, Europe, and the United States.
For Art Basel HK, the gallery is delighted to present a new video work DARK RAIN (2025). It begins with an attempt to look back at a blurred sense of self—an identity perpetually veiled in fog. Limitations and chasms engineered by power make remembering an arduous task, often forcing one into a dead end when trying to trace the threads of personal history. The barriers are dense and unyielding, deliberately constructed to hinder, to obscure, to erase every trace that might lead toward the desired path. In the darkness, we grope forward, feeling for uncertain ground, torn between the choice to keep walking or to stop and surrender. Harsono states “I choose to move on, even if it means stumbling, colliding, or falling into unseen holes—these are consequences I must accept. I am not alone in this struggle. It has become a collective trauma, a shared sorrow carried by minority communities when facing power.” Unnoticed, this trauma has eroded moral and social foundations among the oppressed. Unable to resist, what remains are shadowed memories and a painful past, distilled into a single word: discrimination.
Huang Rui (born 1952, Beijing, China) stands as one of China's most esteemed artists. His artistic creations are deeply rooted in intellectual observations of history, music, contemporary ideas, and the world at large. Huang Rui can be described as a philosopher artist, delving into both the past and present to express his ideas through various mediums such as paintings, sculptures, performances, and installations. Since his early days as a leader of the 1979 Stars Art Group (Xing Xing), Huang Rui’s career has spanned over 40 years.
For Art Basel HK, we will exhibit a painting entitled Floating Moonlight-1 (2020). In Floating Moonlight -1, the screen visually divides the composition into two parts. The upper section is dominated by bold and thick black brushstrokes. In contrast, the lower half is composed of overlapping fragments of old newspapers from China and France. Although many of the images are obscured by ink or layered upon one another, traces of history remain visible — notably, a page from The People’s Daily dated June 3, 1989, just one day before the Tiananmen Square Movement. This is placed alongside French fashion advertisements, creating a striking juxtaposition between two parallel worlds: one marked by political unrest, the other by consumer culture. This contrast enhances the work’s depth on time, history, and memory. The active, ever- changing social world is set against the stillness of black — a visual metaphor for inner calm. Like Yin and Yang, these opposing realities coexist, reflecting the harmony and tension that define both the universe and human experiences.
Huang Rui has recently been honoured by the French Ministry of Culture with the Chevalier des Arts des et Lettres. Its purpose is the recognition of significant contributions to the arts, literature, or the propagation of these fields. Up to 200 recipients receive this Knighting per year for their contribution to the arts.
Josephine Turalba (born 1965, Philippines) is a Filipina interdisciplinary artist whose work explores division and convergence within a volatile geopolitical landscape through performance, installation, and mixed media. Addressing power struggles over contested waters, she reframes these conflicts through leather and bullet shell tapestries, using a hydrofeminist lens. “The imbalance of power and the abuse of authority intrigue and provoke me. The tensions in the West Philippine Sea, where nations stake relentless claims on shoals and fragile ecosystems, challenge us to perceive them as raw and vulnerable rather than as possessions to be controlled and occupied,” she states. Sewing reimagined symbols, fluid identities, and ethereal sea creatures with vibrant threads and repurposed leather, she weaves narratives of transformation, resistance, and beauty, capturing the delicate interplay between fragility and strength.
For Art Basel HK, we will present a new series of tapestries focusing on the underwater world as it is part of the push and pull of geopolitics. We will also present 3 works of transluscent embroidered panels from Drifting Threads and Topographies produced for the Nakanojo Biennial. The works reflect on the lingering textures of its textile-making past and the stillness of its mountain setting. Delicate and translucent, the panels shift with passing air—stirred by breath, body, or breeze—transforming stillness into a quiet tide. Produced with weavers in Lumban and Aklan along with embroiderers in Taal, the panels link two Philippine sites shaped by water and craft. Piña and silk fibres are blended through traditional methods, while embroidery becomes a way of sensing—each thread tracing submerged histories and speculative futures. Drifting Threads and Topographies does not chart new territory but traces what persists across islands, myths, and thresholds: motion without mastery, presence without permanence. Turalba has exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum Manila and internationally at major biennales and institutions, including the London, Cairo, Tashkent, and Nakanojo Biennales.
Lewis Lee (born 1998, Hong Kong) is an artist who is tied to the geographical stories of land and its connected meanings. He grew up in Hong Kong’s Sheung Shui area near the Hong Kong–Mainland China border. As Shenzhen emerged out of the landscape viewed from the rural borderlands on the Hong Kong side he questions what it is to be a Hong Konger. Through his work, he responds to the scars left by previous generations, exploring identity and constructing his own worldview in a playful yet surreal manner. His past works have encompassed painting, photography, installation, and artificial landscapes. Recently he has been travelling throughout Southeast Asia like a migratory bird gazing at the full moon. For Art Basel HK the gallery debuts Lewis Lee’s new paintings, his "Full Moon" series. He yearns for an ideal homeland. Lee uses traditional Balinese fabrics purchased during his travels as canvases, blending Southern Hemisphere landscapes with imagination to subtly depict the customs and culture of the equatorial region. During his time traveling, the moonlight and stars he saw every night gave him a new understanding of time. Only by living alone in a foreign land can one truly reflect on the past, present, and future.
Laurent Martin “Lo” (born 1955, France, lives in Spain) is a visionary French artist who masterfully manipulates bamboo to create breathtaking sculptures that float or balance with an otherworldly grace. His deep understanding of bamboo’s inherent qualities, combined with his exploration of tension, balance, and movement, results in a body of work that is both visually captivating and conceptually rich. With each sculpture, Lo invites viewers to embark on a sensory journey, immersing themselves in the delicate interplay of materials, light, and air. Through his dedication to advancing his practice and pushing the boundaries of his medium, Lo has emerged as a trailblazer in mobile sculpture, reimagining the possibilities of contemporary art. His latest bamboo sculptures will be brought to Art Basel Hong Kong are inspired by the universe, exploring themes of attraction and repulsion, tension and restraint, gravity and weightlessness.
Wang Keping (born 1949 Beijing, lives in France) is a sculptor of wood who finds the essence or vitality of his creations residing within the very wood he works with. After prolonged observation of its knots and branches, he is inspired to uncover what lies within. His journey as a wood sculptor began four decades ago, when he was a spirited young individual in China, fighting alongside his comrades for the freedom to express contemporary art. Today, he stands as a master, a wise sage, and a philosopher, finding everything he needs within the confines of his garden. While his primary themes revolve around Woman, Man, Couple, Mother and Child, Birds and what he terms Ex-Voto to describe his abstract works, each passing year sees Wang Keping grow more adept in capturing the material's essence and exploring its offerings. As a result, we witness his forms evolve and renew, showcasing his mastery. Wang Keping has lived and worked in France since 1984. In the last 2 years he has participated in exhibitions at the Musée Rodin, The Musée Guimet, The Chateau de Chambord, The Centre Pompidou and the Chateau de Fontainebleau as well as M+ in Hong Kong and is being recognized and revered for his long accomplishments to sculpture. For Art Basel HK will showcase never seen works by the artist with vibrant and sensual pieces.
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