Why a Hong Kong artist chose 'self-exile' in Taiwan

Hong Kong artist Kacey Wong reading the last edition of Hong Kong's 'Apple Daily' newspaper during an interview at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts in Taichung, central Taiwan. Photo: AFP

As he queued to board a flight out of Hong Kong to Taiwan last month, dissident artist Kacey Wong was painfully aware of the extra immigration officials brought in to scrutinise each departing passenger.

Wong, 51, was one of the city's best-known provocateurs, an artist who specialised in satirising and criticising those in power.