Works that challenge conventional thinking

WHEN Chinese contemporary artist Gao Weigang was a child, he was never very good at communicating with other kids his age. So, instead, he decided at a young age to turn to art as a way of doing things independently from others, he says.

"I chose to draw and paint, beginning with copying and imitating other paintings, so I essentially became an artist at four years old," says Gao, who was born in 1976 and is now based in Beijing.

But what he humbly chooses to call a stroke of fate, ended up becoming a career choice that has since led him down the path of being an artist and exhibiting in vario…