Wong Ping's Picks
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Wong Ping's Picks
Hong Kong artist Wong Ping’s idiosyncratic animations, rendered in lurid pastels and neons, have taken the international artworld by storm. The artist’s works—perverse, provocative, and hysterically funny—bring forward an absurdist vision of Hong Kong beset by loneliness, frustration, and simmering erotic desires. With his trademark humour, Wong tells tantalising tales of humans seeking connection in a digitally mediated world, where reality and fantasy blur in the strangest of ways. In this screening, Wong will present his recent work, followed by a compilation of short films that have inspired and delighted him over the past two decades.
The screening on 7 May will be followed by a post-screening talk, in which the audience will be given a rare opportunity to hear from the artist himself. The talk will be held in Cantonese. Simultaneous interpretation in English will be available.
Wong Ping. Stills from Sorry for the late reply, 2021. Single-channel video animation, colour, with sound, 15 min. Image: Courtesy of the artist, Kiang Malingue, Hong Kong and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, Los Angeles
Wong Ping. Stills from Sorry for the late reply, 2021. Single-channel video animation, colour, with sound, 15 min. Image: Courtesy of the artist, Kiang Malingue, Hong Kong and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, Los Angeles
Wong Ping. Stills from Sorry for the late reply, 2021. Single-channel video animation, colour, with sound, 15 min. Image: Courtesy of the artist, Kiang Malingue, Hong Kong and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, Los Angeles
Wong Ping. Stills from Sorry for the late reply, 2021. Single-channel video animation, colour, with sound, 15 min. Image: Courtesy of the artist, Kiang Malingue, Hong Kong and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, Los Angeles
Wong Ping. Stills from Sorry for the late reply, 2021. Single-channel video animation, colour, with sound, 15 min. Image: Courtesy of the artist, Kiang Malingue, Hong Kong and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, Los Angeles
Wong Ping. Stills from Sorry for the late reply, 2021. Single-channel video animation, colour, with sound, 15 min. Image: Courtesy of the artist, Kiang Malingue, Hong Kong and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, Los Angeles
Wong Ping. Stills from Sorry for the late reply, 2021. Single-channel video animation, colour, with sound, 15 min. Image: Courtesy of the artist, Kiang Malingue, Hong Kong and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, Los Angeles
Wong Ping. Stills from Sorry for the late reply, 2021. Single-channel video animation, colour, with sound, 15 min. Image: Courtesy of the artist, Kiang Malingue, Hong Kong and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, Los Angeles
Wong Ping. Stills from Sorry for the late reply, 2021. Single-channel video animation, colour, with sound, 15 min. Image: Courtesy of the artist, Kiang Malingue, Hong Kong and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, Los Angeles
Wong Ping. Stills from Sorry for the late reply, 2021. Single-channel video animation, colour, with sound, 15 min. Image: Courtesy of the artist, Kiang Malingue, Hong Kong and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, Los Angeles
Wong Ping. Stills from Sorry for the late reply, 2021. Single-channel video animation, colour, with sound, 15 min. Image: Courtesy of the artist, Kiang Malingue, Hong Kong and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, Los Angeles
Wong Ping. Stills from Sorry for the late reply, 2021. Single-channel video animation, colour, with sound, 15 min. Image: Courtesy of the artist, Kiang Malingue, Hong Kong and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, Los Angeles
About the Director
Wong Ping (b. 1984, Hong Kong) has been creating highly stylised and absurd animations since 2010. He is considered one of the best storytellers of his generation. Wong has been commissioned by institutions including: Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami; Kunsthalle Basel; Guggenheim, New York; M+, Hong Kong; and NOWNESS. In recent years, he has staged large-scale, immersive solo exhibitions that integrate cinematic, sculptural, textual, and interactive elements at the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth (2022); the Times Art Center, Berlin (2022); Kunsthall Stavanger (2022); New Museum, New York (2021); and SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah (2020). His animations have been in film festivals such as the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Sundance Film Festival, London Short Film Festival, and Kino der Kunst, Munich.
Image at top: Wong Ping. Stills from Sorry for the late reply, 2021. Single-channel video animation, colour, with sound, 15 min. Image: Courtesy of the artist, Kiang Malingue, Hong Kong and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, Los Angeles