Residents take selfies in front of Brooklyn-based artist KAWS’s colossal 18-foot-high (5.48-meter-high) wood sculpture, ALONG THE WAY, in Hong Kong yesterday. The sculpture, portraying a pair of gigantic figures with their heads lowered and with one arm around each other in a gentle embrace, alludes to familiar childhood toys and cartoon characters while at the same time transforming their identities with a radical shift in scale, presenting them as monumental cultural presences. Works of KAWS greeted Hong Kong on March 23, with a lying sculpture floating in Victoria Harbour. Yesterday was the last day of the exhibition. China News Service |