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Wai Ting Wendy Wong
Artist Statement
-About Her Recent Works-
Wai Ting Wendy Wong is a young artist from Hong Kong. Her specialization is in painting. Wong started her research about Pop culture and Semiotics in 2007. Since the end of 2007, Wong started to paint with cultural issues and which base on the theory of semiotics. In her work, Wong shows some social phenomenon by using a manga (comic) way to express. She is deeply influenced by the Japanese cartoons, comics and illustrations since she was small. Wong is also one of the foundation members of Maya Illusion, a self-published manga (comic) and illustration group (dojinshi) in Hong Kong, and she published her comics and CG illustrations by using Yue Yuumoto, her pen name, for 7 years. Wong stylized her paintings in a manga style and her practices focus on cultual issues and views about cultural differences. Wong also addresses the daily social phenomenon and her experience about cultural difference in her works too. The followings are the specific bodies of works which she is doing in the recent years.
Hello Silence—-This series of works was inspired by her working experience as a teacher. When she was a student teacher who taught Visual Art in some primary schools, Wong experienced different teaching styles when she observed her mentors’ teaching. In most Asian cultures, absolute discipline is really important. In Hong Kong, where Wong comes from, also treat discipline very important. Nowadays, the government is now encouraging different kind of education methods. However, some old-fashioned teachers still think that absolute discipline must apply in the class. Students should be absolute silence. This is not only exists in education system, but the same thing also happen in some families, companies and the society. Thus, she applied this concept in her creation of “Hello Silence Series”. With the absence of mouths in her characters, a sign of speech suppression was being formed. And, the absence of mouth act as a sign to carry out Wong’s message about suppression of certain kind of freedoms and thoughts due people are trained to be less expressive in most Chinese cultures.
Stitches……—- This recent project of Wong is about “blindly following” and “evading truth” in love affairs.It is normal to see people who have some silly actions when they fall in love. There is a slag said “Love is blind”. According to some researches, some parts of the brain function slowly when someone fall in love. Whether the result of these researches is true or not, it is true that some people love someone blindly and do some silly acts to maintain their relationships. Wong’s recent works are focusing on this concept. She expresses the message by stitching the characters’ eyes in her paintings. She would like to address that “Even though it’s a painful act, I would do that because I can’t evade from the fact that I love him or her more then you can think of. And I don’t care what the outsider talk about.” It seems to be a painful and silly action, but the characters seems enjoying that.
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CV
For more information, please download Wendy Wong’s Artist CV .
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Contact
Email: yueyuumoto@gmail.com or yue_love_tsuyoshi@yahoo.com.hk
