Camy Tam
An exhibition titled “All Memories Will Be Good In the End” by local artist Yoyo Wong Weng Io, co-sponsored by the Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) and Macau Foundation (FM), is being held at the OX Warehouse gallery.
The exhibition displays Wong’s creations such as carpets, printing on flannelette and acrylic paintings on canvas, according to information provided by the gallery.
According to an article on the gallery’s Facebook page, Wong was born in Macau in 1993. She graduated from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Melbourne in 2015 with a bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts. She has been holding solo and group exhibitions since 2017 in Macau and the mainland.
The article points out that Wong’s research-based practice persists in redefining established norms and representations. With her unique deconstructive methods to build assemblages by scavenged information, Wong has synthesised an interest in a search of intersubjectivity. As she believes, the most trivial matters in our lives when operating in a formulaic routine will become the trajectory of our very own existence.
Through revisiting her childhood in the exhibition, as a return to her roots and family traits, Wong sheds new light on the once disparate emotions and estrangement of her early memories in a process of “self-emergence”; the attested multiplicity of intersecting times and histories, has become of her way to reconnect with her family, according to the article.
Wong said in a statement on the gallery’s Facebook page, “By employing old photographs taken by my family members in my works, it feels as if I am collaborating with their younger selves. This kind of creative process acts as the way I—an adult—re-establish my connection with my family: through their perspectives, I am able to sympathise with them and understand their experience and plight as parents. “
The exhibition is on until February 6 on the ground floor 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
