“The Gold Art Prize (GAP) is a biennial award founded in 2021 to support artists from the Asian diaspora. A publication accompanies each cycle that highlights the five awardees, featuring interviews, artworks and essays that help contextualize the awardees’ work within art history and the contemporary cultural movement. In response to GAP’s theme in 2023—body and technology—this book embraces clashes between visual elements to explore how each complements or contradicts the other.

“On one hand, the catalog borrows the common structure of books and sandwiches awardee interviews with commissioned essays. On the other hand, it employs the common material, trim size and aesthetic of fashion magazines. Additionally, uncoated sheets of kintsugi patterns appear every 32 pages, mimicking algorithmic ads encountered in the digital landscape, while a less organic pixel block pattern takes over the cover and opening spreads.”