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Artists do not tend to follow templates. But the will to forge new trajectories is all the more pronounced for a new generation of Hong Kong artists coming of age in a time of great change.<\/p>\n

Three young artists, who graduated into an era of algorithmic hyper-efficiency and a rapidly realigning world, confront the anxieties of adulthood in a new exhibition entitled \u201cFree Radicals \u2013 New expressions from an untethered generation\u201d.<\/p>\n

The fledgling practices of Bethany Man Hoi-ying, Elizabeth Li Shan-shan and Aidan Ng Ho-long are not commercially driven and their art has the wild rebelliousness of youth that makes them all the more authentic, says Kim Lam, co-curator of the show and founder of the gallery Parallel Space.<\/p>\n

The fact that the artists graduated between 2023 and 2025 \u2013 all from the Chinese University of Hong Kong \u2013 makes them representative of a new, \u201cuntethered\u201d generation, Lam adds.<\/p>\n

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(From left) Bethany Man, Elizabeth Li and Aidan Ng at the \u201cFree Radicals\u201d exhibition. Photo: Jonathan Wong<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Lam and fellow co-curator Enid Tsui, the South China Morning Post\u2019s arts editor, named the exhibition after the biochemical term for an unstable type of molecule that is highly reactive and necessary for sparking critical changes \u2013 as is art that resonates with society.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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