A prize for out-of-the-box thinking

The Sovereign Asian Art Prize 2024 results were announced at a gala dinner at the Four Seasons Hotel Hong Kong on May 17. Sameen Agha, an artist from Pakistan, won the $30,000 Grand Prize for her sculpture A Home is a Terrible Place to Love. Carved out of red marble, the piece shows a house falling apart like a cardboard box in the process of being dismantled. The Vogue Hong Kong Women's Art Prize went to Hong Kong's Michelle Fung for her mixed media work Red Bean Stalk, while Demet, an artist from the Philippines, won the Public Vote Prize for his PPE, Paint Palette Emulation.