A large LED display outside SOGO Department Store in Hong Kong Causeway Bay recently exhibited works of the Italian art institution Art Innovation Gallery as part of Art Basel 2023. Patrick Amadon, a renowned Los Angeles artist in the United States, was asked to submit a contribution. Still, Art Innovation Gallery said it was taken down because hidden content may connect to the 2019 to 202 protests in the city.
“No Rioters,” one of Patrick Amadon’s artworks displayed for the Art Innovation Gallery, was said to have hidden messages of convicted protesters from the 2019 Anti-Extradition Movement.