Wong Wai Yin
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Wong Wai Yin is an interdisciplinary artist who experiments with a variety of media ranging from painting, sculpture, collage, performance, video, installations and photography. Taking fragments of her daily life as a point of departure, Wong has transformed these familiar and seemingly humdrum activities into something wanton, witty, and whimsical. By treating the ordinary work with unsurprising indifference, yet interwoven with humour that is playful, irresponsible, and capricious, her work blurs the presumed boundaries between gallery-exhibited art and daily life. Her performance or action-based video works in particular are reminiscent of the conceptual art of the 1960s that questioned the process of making art with elements of chance. Wong’s early artistic training in Hong Kong was focused on traditional Western European studio practices and mediums but she has since been trying to unlearn these conventional means of art making. She has since shifted to a performative and conceptual approach in her work that often stems from autobiographical experiences, episodic memories and playful interventions with art history.
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Wong Wai Yin is an interdisciplinary artist who experiments with a variety of media ranging from painting, sculpture, collage, performance, video, installations and photography. Taking fragments of her daily life as a point of departure, Wong has transformed these familiar and seemingly humdrum activities into something wanton, witty, and whimsical. By treating the ordinary work with unsurprising indifference, yet interwoven with humour that is playful, irresponsible, and capricious, her work blurs the presumed boundaries between gallery-exhibited art and daily life. Her performance or action-based video works in particular are reminiscent of the conceptual art of the 1960s that questioned the process of making art with elements of chance.
Wong’s early artistic training in Hong Kong was focused on traditional Western European studio practices and mediums but she has since been trying to unlearn these conventional means of art making. She has since shifted to a performative and conceptual approach in her work that often stems from autobiographical experiences, episodic memories and playful interventions with art history.