COSMIN COSTINAS

Executive director of the contemporary visual arts space Para Site in Hong Kong

“I believe it is essential to focus our available resources and efforts on sustaining our community of artists. At Para Site we initiated several projects meant to sustain the Hong Kong art community, both financially and in terms of exposure, including the PS Paid Studio Visits, a free-to-attend, online series of virtual studio visits that has featured over 80 artists (who each receive a fee for walking us through their work) and the No Exit Grant, which was awarded to 25 local artists to support living costs. As for the developments in the post-covid-19 era, I hope for two directions: on one hand, after so many of our certainties have been shattered with so much ease, we should exponentially increase our ambitions to confront the structural inequities of our world; on the other hand, shared physical presence, the collective experience in art spaces, the proximity and contact of other bodies that we have all been so deprived of, will decisively return at the centre of the art world.”