Crazy Horse (2024)

In the industrial area of Hong Kong’s Wong Chuk Hang neighbourhood, the artist often collects discarded materials with which he creates new forms. By incorporating rough wood and rusting metal into his works, Ma cautions viewers to keep a safe distance, as the weathered condition of the materials recalls their abandonment. His works also include leather, a nod to his background in fashion design. Soft skin therefore contrasts with hard edges, such as in Crazy Horse (2024), an assemblage of horsehide, metal and wood. In it, visible metal screws and nails fasten pieces of wood to form an anatomically accurate, yet Frankenstein-like, horse’s head. By rejecting the conformist outlook, he simultaneously rejects uniformity as a mechanism of the world.https://www.rossirossi.com/exhibition/gok3-gaau3