Isaac Chong Wai

  • The conceptual, political, and performative qualities of Isaac Chong Wai’s practice are incorporated by an interdisciplinary approach, processing the exigency of societal shifts and global phenomena. His subtle, poetic, and yet critical works infiltrate the systems of meanings, inviting viewers to re-examine his edited representations of, among others, the body, powerlessness, violence, collectivism, leaderlessness, and mourning. He works across a range of media, comprising performance, sculpture, video, painting, and photography. Chong is one of the most active and acclaimed artists in the dance and performance field in Germany, often using his language on body politics to voice out, through poetics, the political frictions in Hong Kong and other contexts of intensified state control.

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The conceptual, political, and performative qualities of Isaac Chong Wai’s practice are incorporated by an interdisciplinary approach, processing the exigency of societal shifts and global phenomena. His subtle, poetic, and yet critical works infiltrate the systems of meanings, inviting viewers to re-examine his edited representations of, among others, the body, powerlessness, violence, collectivism, leaderlessness, and mourning. He works across a range of media, comprising performance, sculpture, video, painting, and photography. Chong is one of the most active and acclaimed artists in the dance and performance field in Germany, often using his language on body politics to voice out, through poetics, the political frictions in Hong Kong and other contexts of intensified state control.