Chankalun (Karen Chan)
THE BIOGRAPHY
As the only female and experimental neon artist within the male-dominant industry in Hong Kong, Chankalun (Karen Chan) seeks to increase awareness and enrich female empowerment through her neon art, which explores new media and technology.
Enamored by the beauty of light, Chankalun created HKCRAFTS, an NGO supporting the preservation of traditions to the fading Hong Kong crafts through marriage of different design disciplines. To keep the neon legacy alive, she learns from 6 neon light masters and artists around the world through “The Neon Girl” project. She was also a TEDxSpeaker in the SCMP Women Of Our Time 2022.
Chankalun (Karen Chan)
The collaboration
Chankalun (Karen Chan)
THE INSIGHT
“Light as Air is an odyssey of air traveling from Montreux – the birthplace of La Prairie – to Hong Kong, as a breeze of pure and ‘light(ed)’ air.”
“Neon is an art and a beauty of science itself.”
For the artist and La Prairie, art and science do not just exist side by side, they are in fact, intertwined full of fruitful cross-pollinations that are in their very nature exemplary of a certain Swiss sensibility.