‘It started as an inside joke’: Hong Kong artist Mak2 on her new web series that channels Queer Eye to parody the city’s

Mak Ying Tung changed her artist name to Mak2 in 2018 on the advice of a fortune-teller, and it seems to have done wonders for her career. Since then, she’s become one of Hong Kong’s bestselling millennial artists, and is now represented by De Sarthe, one of the city’s most prominent art galleries.

Now, the visual artist is getting ready to share hot tips with aspiring entrants to the art world via her new mockumentary “Hong Kong’s Next Top Artist”. The web series launches as part of SerendiCity, an upcoming media arts festival taking place at Hong Kong’s West Kowloon Cultural District and online.