Palimpsest, memorising and ancient Chinese mural methods with artist Wong Sze Wai.
Hong Kong artist Wong Sze Wai (Four)
Ep.21 | Artist Wong Sze Wai, who is also known by her name as Four, sat down with me in her studio in Hong Kong. We talked about breakfast, rituals, the ancient Buddhist grotto murals in the Dunhuang caves in China, colour choice and her unique clay mixture in her paintings. She also addressed the significance of memorising, forgetting and erasing. At the end we discussed Palimpsest and the impact of eastern and western school of thought in her current body of work.
Wong Sze Wai graduated from The Chinese University of Hong Kong with a Master of Fine Arts in 2020, and received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2013.
Wong Sze Wai’s artworks focus on the relationship between memory and imagination. They highlight the loss of memories and represent the process of recollection in a way of inscription and erasure. As for the subject matter, she is fascinated by ruin for its metaphorical representation of lost and concealed memories. In her recent works, ruin has been regarded as a body of memory and history as traces of human activities and changing times fill such abandoned places. From her experience of visiting ruins, wondering about ruins is much alike recalling memories because people imagine the history of ruins, just like we imagine our own memories.
Participated exhibitions include Duo Exhibition “Invisible Border of Memories”(Art Projects Gallery, Hong Kong, 2021), Group Exhibitions : “ Future of the Past” (Contemporary by Angela Li, Hong Kong, 2021), “Shining Moment” (TANG Art Foundation, Hong Kong, 2021), “HKFOREWORD20” (10 Chancery Lane Gallery,Hong Kong, 2020) , “Make _art Not War [T/F]” Works by MFA Graduates 2020 CUHK (Osage, Hong Kong, 2020)
Rituals by Wong Sze Wai
The missing operator by Wong Sze Wai
Website: https://www.wongszewai.com
Instagram: @wong_sze_wai
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