This week in PostMag: artists from Spain, Hong Kong, Stockholm … and a farewell

But when we heard Spanish photographer and artist Coco Capitán was coming to town for “Imagination Investments”, a three-part exhibition that marks her first major presentation in the city, we knew we had to speak to her. Capitán’s soulful work moves fluidly between fine art and fashion – from gallery shows in Seoul and Paris to campaigns for Gucci and Dior – and speaking to Sarah Keenlyside, she reflects on art, commerce and imagination. She doesn’t want to think her work is unique because she’s a woman, she says. “I want to think they’re unique because I’m Coco.”

I loved reading Vanessa Lee’s profile of Stockholm-based artist Lap-see Lam. Lam, whose work is being shown at Blindspot Gallery this month and next, dives into her Hong Kong roots and the strange state of in-between identities, where memory, mythology and family history blur and reassemble in unexpected ways.

When I lived in Beijing in the early 2010s, it was impossible to speak about the contemporary art scene without mentioning Philip Tinari, formerly of UCCA Centre for Contemporary Art. Now, he’s joining us in Hong Kong as Tai Kwun’s deputy director and head of art. He tells Gavin Yeung his path to getting to “this crazy place” – from underground Beijing openings and early Artforum days to building one of mainland China’s most influential art institutions.

Elsewhere, Adele Brunner gives us a peek inside muralist Elsa Jeandedieu’s stylish Mid-Levels flat and Peter Neville-Hadley travels to Padua, where he takes in the city’s astonishing frescoes.