Camy Tam
The Ox Warehouse has invited local artist Wong Weng Cheong to join its Art-City-People Exhibition Series entitled “Above the Descending”, co-sponsored by the Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) and Macau Foundation (FM), according to an article on the gallery’s Facebook page.
Wong holds a bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Goldsmiths, University of London which he obtained in 2017.
“He brings together different media and simple technologies to create artwork that is exquisite, sensitive, and carefully arranged, according to a statement of the exhibition’s curator Leong Fei In.
This event is Wong’s first solo exhibition in Macau.
Leong told The Macau Post Daily yesterday that the theme of the exhibition is a kind of paradox through which Wong would like to deliver messages of conflict in his creations.
According to Leong’s statement from the gallery’s Facebook page, a sculpture displayed on the first floor of the gallery challenges the viewer’s perception of inertia by toying with the conflict between the materials and gravity while the works displayed on the second floor integrate sound installations and six 3D images combining lenticular (shaped like a lentil) film. These images were created through a meticulous process of composition, and hint at a kind of relationship existing between them. These works are direct descendants of the prints of Wong’s solo exhibition in Kyoto in 2018 entitled “Catch It Outside”, created through a different image processing method, possess a kind of dispositional visual tension, the statement underlines.
Wong says in his artist statement that the works on the first floor explore a “float space”, interpreted through 3D grating technology and a “flow force of balance installations.”
With sounds of the sea echoing through the exhibition space, the installations in the contradictions of materials, gravity, space and balance create a shaky and floating sensory effect, Wong says.
The paintings or images, by using grating technology that highlights visual tension and the sense of space, convey the shapes of water. Paintings deviating from the static position create an extending tension, producing internal dynamics between art and Nature, “hence cohesion in the 2D interior of the exhibition venue”, according to Wong’s statement.
The exhibition is on display until February 6 on the first and second floors of the Post-Ox Warehouse Experimental Site at 15, Rua do Volong, except Mondays, from noon to 7 p.m. daily. Admission is free.
Visitors are required to wear a facemask and apply hand sanitiser when entering the venue.
For enquiries call 28530026 or visit the website: https://www.facebook.com/oxwarehouse/
Photos: Camy Tam
