In an era shaped by mechanical reproduction and digital saturation, pictoriality operates as a mediating force between perception, information, and meaning. Extending beyond visual art, it functions across broader social and cultural contexts, shaping how visual material is recognized as evidence, memory, or truth, and how systems of visibility organize attention and belief.
Moderated by curators Janet Fong and Tong Yang, this panel brings together artists Cheong Kin Man & Marta Stanisława Sala, Sunny Wang and Tom O’Dea to reflect on how pictoriality operates within their practices, with particular attention to material exploration. Rather than treating pictorial form as a visual object, the discussion approaches pictoriality as a process between material presence and indexical trace, between the visible and invisible, and between artist and audience. The panel invites reflection on how visual forms translate and negotiate experience in everyday life.
This panel is part of the Art Basel Hong Kong 2026 Parallel Exhibition Between Image and Index, organized by the Academy of Visual Arts, School of Creative Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University.
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