THE RECURRING ATTEMPT TO MAKE A DETOUR
ELAINE WONG’S SOLO EXHIBITION
2022 OCT 29 - 30 | 12PM - 7PM
12 EU TONG SEN STREET #04-163 SINGAPORE 059819
OPENING | OCT 29 3PM
ONLINE SHARING WIth Wong Hei-wa (HK) & Koel Chu (HK) | OCT 29 5PM (Zoom)
Body movement/videography collaboration with Tan Weiying (SG) | OCT 30 3PM
Open your eyes.
Yes, you are back here, someone hit ‘restart’ for you.
Have you ever dreamt of trying to find an exit but can never find it?
“The recurring attempt to make a detour” is the time of being immobilised, yet everything within moves - the pulse created by blood traveling through the vein, the slow nods of the head when dozing off, the perpetual waves that would not stop...
The movements respond to the absence of light and withstand the invasion of darkness. Every drift, every swing, every swirl, every fidget… is an attempt to open the window that is blocked.
Move along before they hit restart again.
BIO of ELAINE WONG
Wong lives and based in Hong Kong. She received her Master of Fine Art (Creative Media) from School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong in 2019 and holds a Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) degree from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) University. With a background in painting, she explores and unveils the manifolds of daily encounters and inner conditions. She regards her practice as an investigation of the potentials of art beyond representation, its relation to sensation, documentation and experience. Her interest in the experiential quality of works leads her to engage in experiments with videography, sound and installations.
Her works have been shown in Hong Kong and internationally; including the Singapore Art Week (2021), Hong Kong International Photo Festival (2020), Hong Kong Heritage Museum (2018), Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre (2018), Oi! Street Art Space (2017), EXIS Korea (2017), and Poland Szczecin European Film Festival (2017). She was one of the selected artists for 1a Space’s Emerging Talents in Contemporary Art (2020), Art-Uni-On (AUO) Artist Mentoring Program (2017) in Korea, and was awarded a scholarship from Hong Kong Art Centre to attend the Culture, Graphic Design and Fine Arts program in New York School of Visual Arts (2013).
Elaine currently teaches in Chinese University of Hong Kong and Hong Kong Design Institute. She is also the founder of Altermodernists, an independent art group that is devoted to the documentation of artists’ creative processes and promote visual arts in Hong Kong.
