Sun Xun’s meticulously crafted ink-and-brush animated “What Happened In Past Dragon Year” riffs on traditional Chinese iconography to create a gently subversive work that uses broken translations of the original language throughout. “It started with a cover I was designing for an economics magazine. The brief was an assessment of the Year of the Dragon through the eyes of an artist,” says the Beijing video artist. “It works as both a reflection and a prediction.” The piece is currently screening at the Edouard Malingue Gallery as part of Brave New World: named after Huxley’s dystopian novel, his exhibition follows Sun's inclusion in the Met’s critically acclaimed survey of Chinese artists Ink Art and his solo show at London’s Hayward Gallery earlier this year. The rising star is being spotlighted at Art Basel Hong Kong fair, which kicks off today. “Sun Xun is one of the most original and witty artists of the younger generation in China,” notes Yana Peel, CEO of worldwide debating forum Intelligence Squared and one of the most ardent supporters of contemporary Asian art. “In a community with very limited spaces dedicated to the display of visual culture, the Hong Kong fair will be an opportunity for 65,000 people to see art they could not encounter otherwise.”