The big picture

It's Glass-Kantor's sixth time curating the sector. "I had curated Encounters in 2020 when the world changed, and the show was unable to go forward," she says. "And then I got the call last October. Usually around that time, the year before the show, we'd be finalizing all the works and locking everything in. This time around, we were just beginning."

Assembling a collection of 14 colossal art pieces from around the world in a drastically shortened time frame, while also managing the sector's debut off-site project, was no mean feat, and yet Glass-Kantor found the experience especially rewarding. "I was excited to celebrate Hong Kong," she says. "The first two encounters this year are Trevor Yeung with Blindspot Gallery, and Jaffa Lam from Axel Vervoordt gallery."