New York-based artist Aakash Nihalani creates illusions of space and materiality with the elements of color, line and shadow, rendering abstract geometric patterns and forms which play with architecture, space and volume. Derived from a street-art practice in which he uses brightly colored paper tape to create short-lived site-specific installations in the public realm, thus creating optical volumes with the simple paper line, his sculptures consolidate these ephemeral installations into material form. While many of Nihalani’s outdoor works in tape are eventually torn down or decomposed by weather, his laser cut sculptural works for the fair employ positive and negative cutout spaces, once again creating visual allusions to an absent volume. For Art HK, Nihalani presents new works in wood, metal and video which reflect the elements of positive/negative, or construction/deconstruction, which are essential to his practice.