Originally introduced in 2019, The Peninsula’s art programme will return this year to coincide with Hong Kong Art Week. Local artist Kingsley Ng’s monumental sculpture Esmeralda will float over the hotel’s façade, “undulating between the physics of gravity and the buoyancy of air”. A newly commissioned piece of work by Lachlan Turczan named Harmonic Resonance will also be on display on the first floor – this is a mirrored pool of water that shows patterns created by choreographed infrasonic tones.
Other pieces shown during this time will include a large-scale sculpture by Elise Morin made with thousands of pulverised CDs. This eye-catchingly sparkly installation was inspired by the biblical tale of Jonah and the whale, and is right in the hotel lobby where you can’t miss it. Lastly, a multisensory video installation that promotes meditation and contemplation by Saya Woolfalk lies at the end of of The Peninsula arcade’s corridors, and is a quiet piece that is as absorbing as it is peaceful. These artworks will be available to view for free from now until May at The Peninsula Hong Kong, before they travel to other Peninsula properties globally.
