NADA New York 2023

After 35 years of making art, Hou inspired by his early works and reflected on his career, he created “Jinn-son Bang,” a series of floral cloth paintings he made with elements he had developed previously in 2021 and 2022. Through combining the present international context with local printed fabric, Hou created a series of brand-new images. The choice of the printed fabric could be seen as his recent focus on desire and childhood. In the series, many works are made with embroidery, recalling the lines of his prints series since the 1990s. What these “Hou-styled” images being brought to light, it is not only a future reference of opposing, satirizing, and teasing, they also express the status of an artist who is nearly 60 years old.