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Past Resident
2013: Danish Arts Foundation

Jakob Boeskov

Jakob Boeskov is a Danish-Icelandic artist and filmmaker. His work touches upon many disciplines involving video, drawing and conceptual art. Common subjects are technology, politics and his native Scandinavian region. Boeskov’s best known project is calle ID Sniper, where he infiltrated a Chinese weapons fair with a fake hi-tech weapon.

Jakob Boeskov (born 1973, Elsinore, Denmark) moved to Copenhagen in the early 1990s  where he put out his satirical comic Flax Letter (Nicolai Wallner Entertainments) and the experimental 8mm film Exhaust Tiger. In 1998 he published a comic about Lars Von Trier, after which he abandoned comics entirely, focusing on drawings and more conceptual art projects. His first solo show My Doomsday Weapon, The Thing, New York, 2004 documented the creation of a fictional hi-tech weapon.  He later described these events in the film Empire North (2010), a film that won the Danish Dox Award at the Copenhagen DOX Film Festival. Group exhibitions include Populism, Frankfurter Kunstverein, 2005 and Screening War, ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, 2005In 2010, Boeskov’s work was the subject  of the retrospective exhibition Siggimund at the National Gallery of Denmark. His solo exhibitions include Coup de Théâtre, V1, Copenhagen, 2005, Thule, V1, Copenhagen, 2010 and Weekend Futurology, Mulherin Pollard, New York, 2012Boeskov lives and works in New York City.

Past Resident
2013: ACC - Asian Cultural Council

Law Man Lok

Law Man’s work deals with how a sign is used within a particular political environment. In recent years, places like Hong Kong have not encourages the flexibility of interpretation and the creativity of sign. To manipulate political signs and study the ways to politicize a sign has become the most important aspect of his work; with little difference between bringing fantasy into reality and reality into fantasy.

Law Man received his BA in 2001 from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and his MFA in 2007 from Goldsmiths College, Univeristy of London. He is a founding member of Political Art Group and Wooferten, two organizations that take an intensely critical approach to art and art-making. Law Man was the anchor of RTHK TV’s programme Cultural Magazine. His work emphasizes the synergy of imagination and criticality.

Alejandro Botubol

Alejandro Botubol’s work deals with the constant and persistent exploration of space. His images aren’t figural; they’re grounded in symbolism, gravity and time. His paintings are infinite, and pursue the search for truth through the contemplation of life. Botubol embraces the sense of immanence in all objects, creating metaphysical tension with a nuanced sense of mysticism.

Alejandro Botubol (born 1979) studied painting, engraving and design at the University of Fine Arts in Seville. His work has been exhibited in the Taidemuseo, Riihimäki; Museum of Inquisition, Cartagena and The Dr. Rafael Calderón Guardia Museum, San José.