Kitman Yeung (b. 1999, Hong Kong; raised in Australia) received their MFA in Public Art and New Artistic Strategies from Bauhaus-Universität Weimar (2025) following a BSc in Neuroscience from the University of Melbourne. An interdisciplinary artist, Yeung explores the gap between lived reality and imposed narratives of mobility. With an interest in socio-spatial research, they examine how air, volume, and inflation are used to construct authority — from corporate mascots to psychological spectacles. “Four-Fingered Faith”, a ladder made of rubber gloves, looks at “inflation” as both a physical process and an ideological state, analysing how buoyant icons hover above grounded human experience. Yeung also co-founded the research collective groundtable, which uses collaborative, food-based interventions to examine cultural identity and shared memory. Their work has been shown in Hong Kong, Germany, Australia, and broader Europe.

Born out of a 1928 intellectual property loss, Mickey Mouse was Disney's strategic ambassador, a fictional figure designed to codify the famous "four-fingered" cartoon motif and build an universal empire.
Over time, this four-fingered mascot became a global symbol of childhood innocence, optimism, and lightheartedness. Corporate fairytales like these tempt us to look upward, using these desirable icons as a ladder to reach the manufactured fantasy of paradise. Constructed from disposable gloves and air, Four-Fingered Faith materializes this temporary belief as a scaffold. A ladder allows for both ascent and descent: as easily as we inflate our belief in these icons, that same faith deflates the moment we unsee the iconic glove and reveal the inflated hands beneath it.