Anthony Chiou & Paulo Chicareli
Atravessei an Entire Ocean
3 October – 18 October

Two artists, two journeys, one ocean. Anthony Chiou (HKU, 2025) and Paulo Chicareli (KABK, 2025) and bring together their stories of migration, memory, and belonging. Through photography, collage, and painting, they build a shared space – soft acts of resistance, bright gestures of home – transforming what was crossed and what was found into something new. Atravessei an Entire Ocean invites you into a world where intimacy, protest, memory, and imagination meet. Paulo Chicareli Paulo Chicareli (he/him) is a queer photographer and visual artist from Brazil. With roots in filmmaking and street photography, his practice spans photography, video, collage, and self-published zines. Guided by intuition, history, and personal experience, his work explores themes of violence and affection within LGBTQ communities. Blending the political and poetic, Chicareli aims to inform, provoke, and connect. Inspired by the energy and contradictions of the streets, his art seeks to resonate emotionally and intellectually, creating space for reflection and dialogue. Anthony Chiou Chiou paints with oil on canvas, using strong, bright colours that remind him of home. The process is intuitive, starting from a photo or memory, then slowly building layers of paint. He plays with texture and contrast: thick and thin paint, sharp forms and soft gestures. Figures are often hidden or stretched, part of something larger. The result is a mix of memory and imagination, where objects, people, and places come together in unexpected ways. His paintings reflect his background; being from many places at once, combining different cultures, reference points and turning them into something his own. He paints personal moments: a house, a tree, a family figure, a bird. All things that were seen, observed and found important enough to immortalise with paint on canvas. They’re a balance between a play in how paint