Press Play When You’re Ready: Profile of Enoch Cheng

It was March 22, 2016, opening night of Art Basel Hong Kong and the busiest week in the city’s art calendar. As colleagues flocked to the fair after work, I hurried in the opposite direction towards an obscure back alley in Causeway Bay. It took me ten minutes to arrive in the general vicinity and another ten minutes of wandering before I honed in on the exact address. “I have arrived, I think,” I texted Hong Kong-based artist and curator Enoch Cheng, staring sceptically at the deserted two-by-twelve-foot ground-floor storefront. Where was the promised exhibition, and what had I come to see?

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